Nguyễn Trọng Nghĩa (right), Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Publicity and Education, hands over the Politburo's decision to editor-in-chief of Nhân dân newspaper Lê Quốc Minh at a ceremony held on Thursday. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Lê Quốc Minh has been appointed as editor-in-chief of Nhân dân (People) newspaper.

A conference was held on Thursday by Nhân Dân newspaper to announce the Politburo’s decision on the appointment which was issued on April 29.

Minh was born on December 1, 1969, in central Nghệ An Province’s Diễn Châu District.

He started his career as an editor of VNA’s World News Department in 1990.

In 2008, he was appointed as editor-in-chief of VNA’s VietnamPlus e-newspaper and was then appointed as Deputy General Director of VNA in 2017. — VNS