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Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang hosted a meeting with Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askhat Zhumagali, on the morning of February 25th, in Hanoi.

The past decade has seen Vietnam move up more than 30 spots in terms of the corruption perception index, as ranked by Transparency International (TI).

Mr. Phan Dinh Trac, Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Party Committee and Chief of the Party’s Commission for Internal Affairs and Vice Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-corruption, led a delegation on April 18 to work with Phu Tho province on investigation of high-tech crimes.

General To Lam, Politburo Member, Minister of Public Security and Vice Chairman of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, on September 24 led a delegation to work with the Dak Lak Provincial Party Committee on the province’s anti-corruption work in 2018 and the first 6 months of 2019.

PSNews - General To Lam, Politburo Member, Minister of Public Security and Vice Chairman of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, on March 18 led a delegation to work with the authority of Lam Dong Province on anti-corruption work.

PSNews - The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) organized a conference on March 12 to review the fight against corruption within the Public Security Forces in 2018. The conference was chaired by General To Lam, Politburo Member, Minister of Public Security, and Head of the Anti-corruption Steering Committee of the MPS.

A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador’s presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades.

PSNews – The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on November 11 announced a hotline to receive information and denouncement on signs of corruption and wrongdoings of police officers.

PSNews – An inspection team of the Anti-Corruption Central Steering Committee on November 29 worked with the Standing Board of the Central Public Security Party Committee on asset recovery in corruption and economic cases.

The National Assembly Standing Committee convened a conference of full-time NA deputies on September 6 to discuss the draft revised law on fighting corruption and draft adjustments to the Law on Higher Education.

PSNews – The Government Inspectorate of Vietnam on July 17 conferred the insignia “Recognition of contributions of inspection cause” on H.E Christopher Batt, Officer-in-charge of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vietnam.

Corruption prevention is an important work that needs to be conducted regularly, continuously, resolutely and patiently, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed at a national conference of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption on June 25.

The national conference on corruption prevention and fight which opened in Hanoi on June 25, is of great significance as it gave an in-depth analysis of the results and identified pending issues and limitations in anti-corruption work after a first half term of realizing the 12th Party Congress’s resolution.