To, 62, a native of the northern Ninh Binh Province, is an Associate Professor in Security Science, holding a PhD in Criminology and Criminal Investigation.

He is a member of the 12th and 13th Central Party Committee, from January 2016 until now. He has had a long career in the police force, holding positions such as Deputy Director of the Environmental Police Department, General Department of Police for Crime Prevention and Control, Deputy Director of the Police Department for Crime Prevention and Control, and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Police Agency at the Ministry of Public Security.

In March 2014, he was appointed as the Permanent Deputy Secretary of Thai Nguyen Province Party Committee and was elected the province's Party Secretary more than a year later.

He served as the Deputy Minister of Public Security from May 2020.

Earlier on Wednesday, the National Assembly approved the dismissal of To Lam from Minister of Public Security position after he was elected president by the NA deputies.

The change in leadership followed the exit of Vo Van Thuong from his position as president in March, upon personal request.

The National Assembly on Monday also voted in Tran Thanh Man, its standing deputy chairman, as its new chairman. The Central Party Committee approved for his predecessor Vuong Dinh Hue to step down as chairman earlier this month.

Argentine newspaper publishes Party leader's article

Argentina’s Resumen Latinoamericano newspaper has published the article “Proud and confident under the Party's glorious flag, determined to build a Vietnam more prosperous, powerful, civilised, heroic with a fine and long-lasting culture" by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong, on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the liberation of the south and national reunification (April 30).

NA Chairman receives Secretary of Yunnan Provincial Party Committee

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue received Wang Ning, member of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Secretary of the Yunnan provincial Party Committee, and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the provincial People's Congress, in Kunming city on April 11, as part of the Vietnamese leader's official visit to China.

Vietnam sees Japan as important strategic partner: Party official

Vietnam always views Japan as an important and long-term strategic partner, and stands ready to develop the bilateral ties to a stronger and more comprehensive and practical fashion on the basis of its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralism and diversification, a senior Vietnamese Party official has said.

Party chief invites President Putin to visit Vietnam

Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has invited President Vladimir Putin to visit Vietnam, emphasizing that Vietnam considers its relationship with Russia one of its foreign policy priorities.

E-book on Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong’s article released

The Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House has just launched an e-book entitled “Proud of and Confident in the Glorious Flag of the Party, Determined to Build an Increasingly Prosperous, Civilised and Heroic Vietnam”, which features the full text of an article of the same name by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Source:VnExpress