New law labels health of Vietnam's top leaders secret
The secrecy is classified into three levels, including top secret, confidential, and undisclosed.
The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) has given passage to a law on protecting state secrets regulating which information must be fully kept untold, including health conditions of the top leaders. 
NA deputies press buttons to vote. Photo: Internet
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The secrecy is classified into three levels, including top secret, confidential, and undisclosed.
Top secret refers to information in the fields of politics, defense, security, cipher, and foreign relations. The information might harm the nation once it is disclosed or lost, the law states.
Meanwhile, information labelled confidential includes that relates to politics, defense, security, cipher, constitution, legislature, justice, foreign relations, economics, environment and natural resources, science and technologies, education and training, culture, sports, information and communications, health.
Under the law, information of secret includes that relates to the party and state’s policies on internal and external affairs, operations of the Party’s Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat and the party and the state’s top leaders; the strategies on minorities and religions, national and social security; the news that might cause negative impacts on the social-economics.
Among those, information relating to the health of leaders of the Party, the state and government is also labeled confidential.
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