Vietnamese Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam paid courtesy calls on General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavan in Vientiane on August 24.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, chairman of the National Defence and Security Council, had a meeting with the Economic Security Department of the Ministry of Public Security on August 18.

Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security recently met with the embassies of Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain and asked them to coordinate with Vietnam to tackle difficulties regarding granting visas in the new version of Vietnam’s passports.

Minister of Public Security Gen. To Lam has stressed the need for each individual to protect personal information, especially on the cyberspace, when responding to deputies’ queries regarding the disclosure and sale of personal information on social networks.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Public Security accepts responsibility for the failure of the new passport model which has not been accepted by some countries, said Minister of Public Security To Lam on August 10 at the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee's Q&A session held in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is planning to add the “place of birth” to the new passport version to facilitate citizens’ seeking of visas to the Schengen countries.

VOV.VN - Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Dung presided over a ceremony on August 5 at the Vietnamese Embassy in the United States in order to receive several cultural artifacts and antiquities from the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Three firefighters who died while on their duty in Hanoi's Cau Giay district on August 1 afternoon were posthumously promoted to higher rankings under a decision signed by Minister of Public Security, General To Lam, on August 2.

VOV.VN - Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has requested the Ministry of Public Security and the Hanoi administration to identify the cause of a blaze that ravaged a 6-storey karaoke parlor and killed three firefighters in the capital on August 1.

VOV.VN - Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has requested the Ministry of Public Security and the Hanoi administration to identify the cause of a blaze that ravaged a 6-storey karaoke parlor and killed three firefighters in the capital on August 1.