Vietnamese vice president becomes acting president

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Vietnamese Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh became the acting president on Sunday, two days after Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang passed away, according to Vietnam News Agency.

On Sunday, Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, chairwoman of Vietnam's National Assembly, signed an announcement on behalf of the National Assembly's Standing Committee about the new position of Thinh.

Thinh has been vice president since April 2016.

She will act as the acting president till the top legislature elects the new president.

She has been a Communist Party member since 1979. Born on Christmas Day in 1959, the 59-year-old from the central province of Quảng Nam is the permanent president of the Vietnam Women's Union, Vietnam News reported.

She has also served as deputy chief of the central party office, and is also on the National Assembly's external relations committee, according to her biography on the government website.

(Cover: Vietnam's Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh takes over as president after the death of Tran Dai Quang. She is pictured here at the Vietnam Korea Institute of Science and Technology at Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Hanoi, on March 22. /Reuters Photo)

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency