State President Luong Cuong presided over the ceremony to present appointment decisions to the Deputy Chief Justices of the Supreme People's Court for Supreme People's Court Judges Le Tien and Nguyen Bien Thuy at the Presidential Palace on the morning of January 7.

Tran Duc Thang, Party Central Committee member and Secretary of the Hai Duong provincial Party Committee, was appointed as Standing Deputy Inspector General of Government Inspectorate; while Ho Van Nien, Party Central Committee member and Secretary of the Gia Lai provincial Party Committee, was appointed as Standing Deputy Minister of Ethnic and Religious Affairs.