Manuel Vong
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- Ágio Pereira
- (Acting Minister)
Manuel Vong | |
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 Vong in 2020 | |
| Minister for Tourism | |
| In office 15 September 2017 – 22 June 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Mari Alkatiri |
| Preceded by | Francisco Kalbuadi Lay |
| Succeeded by |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 November 1962 |
Manuel Florêncio da Canossa Vong (born 7 November 1962), also known as Lito Vong, is an East Timorese university lecturer and politician. In 2017–2018, he was Minister for Tourism in the short-lived VII Constitutional Government of East Timor.
Vong was born in Dili, in the then Portuguese Timor. He comes from a family of farmers, and has five brothers and five sisters. His parents attached great importance to a good school education. From 1969 to 1974, he attended the elementary school of the Catholic Mission, then he went to school in Dili from 1974 to 1975. On 7 December 1975, the Indonesians landed in Dili at the start of their invasion of East Timor, and schooling was suspended.[1][2]
The following year, 1976, Vong returned to his school in Dili; he completed eighth grade in 1977. Until 1981 he attended pre-secondary level schooling, and in 1984 he completed secondary level at St Joseph's High School (Portuguese: Colégio de São José) in Dili.[1][2]
In 1989, Vong was awarded a bachelor's degree in public administration from the Akademi Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri (APDN) in Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Three years later, in 1992, he obtained a degree in political science from the Institut Ilmu Pemerintahan in Jakarta.[1][2]
