HANOI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- A doctorate degree holder from southern Vietnam on Thursday became the new president of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, Vietnam News Agency reported.
The committee's meeting on Thursday made a compromise decision on detailing the VFF Central Committee's vice president Tran Thanh Man, born in 1962 in southern Hau Giang province, for the new post, replacing Nguyen Thien Nhan, who was appointed by the Political Bureau under the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee to be Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee.
Nhan replaced Dinh La Thang, who had been removed from the Political Bureau for his past financial wrongdoings as head of the state-owned National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam).
Man, who has a doctoral degree in economics, is a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, and of the National Assembly, the country's top legislature. He was Secretary of the Can Tho City Party Committee, and Chairman of the Can Tho City People's Committee.
