MPS hosts international workshop on drafting policy on personal data protection

General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Public Security held talks on May 30 with Singapore’s Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam.

Vietnam is pushing ahead with efforts to streamline its state apparatus, improve institutions and strengthen national governance capacity, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and State President To Lam said.

Also on May 27 in Moscow, General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo Member and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, held talks with the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin.

General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo Member and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, leading a high-level delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, attended the 6th Russia-ASEAN High-Level Consultations on Security, on the afternoon of May 27 (local time) in Moscow.

As part of his visit to Russia and participation in the first International Security Forum in Moscow, General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, met with the Secretary of the National Security Council of Mongolia Byambajargal, on the afternoon of May 27.

Within the framework of his visit to the Russian Federation and attendance at the first International Security Forum organized by the Security Council of Russia, General Luong Tam Quang, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security, attended the signing ceremony of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on cooperation in technology, security, and digital infrastructure between Vietnamese and Russian enterprises, on the morning of May 26 in Moscow.

Member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang, leading a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, arrived in Moscow on May 25, beginning an official visit to the Russian Federation and attending the first International Security Forum hosted by the Russian Security Council, at the invitation of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation General Sergei Shoigu.

The Department of Information and Communications under the Ministry of Public Security held a ceremony, on the afternoon of May 26, in Hanoi, to launch the Electronic Newsroom Management System and a new interface for the online edition of the People’s Public Security (OK9 Cab) Newspaper.

Within the framework of his visit to Russia to attend the first International Security Forum, Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang held separate talks with Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Aleksandr Kurenkov and Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, on the afternoon of May 26 (local time).

PSNews - Cooperation between Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is set to deepen through a range of practical projects, spanning patrol vessels, fire prevention and rescue capabilities, cybersecurity and digital transformation in traffic safety training.

On May 21, the Ministry of Public Security, in coordination with Nghe An Province and relevant units, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a housing project for People's Public Security forces in Vinh Phu Ward, Nghe An Province.

Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang hosted a meeting with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman on May 19 in Hanoi.

Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang hosted a meeting with Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR) Rick Switzer on the morning of May 19 in Hanoi.

On the occasion of the 136th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 – 2026), the Ministry of Public Security held a ceremony to present a documentary film on President Ho Chi Minh’s 1955 visit to Sverdlovsk province of the former Soviet Union to the Office of the Party Central Committee, Vietnam Television and the Ho Chi Minh Museum, on May 19 in Hanoi.

The Ministry of Public Security solemnly held a ceremony to announce the Minister of Public Security’s decision to officially establish the Dong Nai City Police Department, on May 18 in Dong Nai City.

The People’s Security Academy held an opening ceremony for a refresher course for leaders of all under-ministeral departments and provincial-level police departments and other equivalent units under the Ministry of Public Security on the afternoon of May 19 in Hanoi.

PSNews – The Ministry of Public Security’s Steering Committee for Amnesty held a meeting, on May 19, to review the relevant units’ implementation of the State President’s 2026 amnesty decision and examine dossiers of inmates proposed for special amnesty.

Senior Lieutenant General Dr. Le Quoc Hung, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Public Security Central Party Committee and Deputy Minister of Public Security, attended and delivered remarks at the opening ceremony of a training course for Party committee officials of the Lao Ministry of Public Security, held at the People's Public Security Political Academy, on the afternoon of May 18.

The Ministry of Public Security, on May 17, held the artistic exchange program “Shining from the People’s Trust” to mark the 10th anniversary of the “Outstanding Women in Public Security” Award (2015–2024), alongside the presentation ceremony for the 2025 “Outstanding Women in Public Security” Award and the commendation of “Excellent Female Grassroots Police Officers”.

PSNews - Recently, the Police Department of Temporary Detention and Community-based Correction Management under the Ministry of Public Security, in coordination with the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Federation and the Hanoi City Police Department, organized the 2026 community reintegration program themed “Heading Toward the Dawn" in Hanoi.