Party leader Trong announces Central Committee Secretariat

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong announced the membership of the new 11th Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee's Secretariat yesterday, Feb 9.

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The Secretariat comprises 10 people. They are Party General Secretary Trong, permanent member of the Secretariat of the CPVCC Truong Tan Sang, General, Minister of Public Security Le Hong Anh, Director of the CPVCC's Commission for Organisation To Huy Rua, Director of the CPVCC's Commission for Inspection Ngo Van Du and Head of the Central Commission for Communication and Education Dinh The Huynh.

Earlier, the 11th Party Central Committee elected four new members to the Secretariat.

They include Lieutenant General, Deputy Director of the General Politics Department of the Viet Nam People's Army Ngo Xuan Lich, Chief of the Supreme People's Court Truong Hoa Binh, Director of the CPVCC Commission for Mass Mobilisation Ha Thi Khiet, and Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

The CPVCC Secretariat takes responsibility for supervising the daily execution of Party policies.

Laos publishes Ho Chi Minh Thought book

Laos has published a book on Ho Chi Minh’s Thought and ethic example in practising thrift and fighting corruption, wastefulness and bureaucracy, written by the former Minister of Information and Culture, Bountenh Vongxay.

The book gathers articles of his theoretical research on the simple but great example of Vietnam’s late President Ho Chi Minh.

The book’s author, who previously headed the Lao News Agency, said the Laotians could learn many practical lessons from Ho Chi Minh’s moral example.

The book will come out before the ninth National Congress of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party opens at the end of March.

In 2006, Bountenh published a book on Ho Chi Minh’s thought in Vietnam’s renovation cause, which has been used by Lao schools and armed forces as textbooks for their political education.

Congratulations conveyed to new Nepali Prime Minister

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sent a letter of congratulations to Jhala Nath Khanal for assuming the role of Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal yesterday.

Letter of condolence sent after death of former Fijian president

President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday, Feb 9, sent his condolences to President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau of the Republic of Fiji following the death of former President Ratu Josefa Iloilo.

Ratu Josefa Iloilo passed away on Sunday.

Congratulations to Myanmar's newly-elected leaders

State President Nguyen Minh Triet and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Saturday sent a joint message of congratulations to the newly-elected President of Myanmar, Thein Sein.

In their message, the Vietnamese leaders affirmed belief that under the leadership of Thein Sein, Myanmar will attain greater achievements in the national construction and development, actively contributing to peace, stability, co-operation and development in the region and the world at large.

On the same day, Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan addressed a congratulatory message to Tin Aung Myint Oo, who was elected as Vice President of Myanmar.

Earlier on February 1, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong sent congratulatory messages to Myanmar's newly-elected upper house speaker Khin Aung Myint and lower house speaker Thura Shwe Mann, respectively, on their taking offices.

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