Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- The Politburo on Monday held a meeting with former senior leaders of the Party, the state, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front on the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the 2023 Lunar New Year.

Society

-- It is expected to be hot and sunny with little wind in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, while northern provinces will record light rain, drizzle, and fog, the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting reported.

-- A police officer in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has been demoted after being caught on camera kicking a handcuffed person on January 20.

-- More than 21 cubic meters of wood have been chopped down in the latest deforestation case that took place in Ninh Hoa Town in south-central Khanh Hoa Province, the local forest protection unit said on Monday.

-- The government has decided to provide VND31,392 billion (US$1.3 million) for the Ministry of Transport to implement five major expressway projects.

-- Police in north-central Nghe An Province confirmed on Monday they had arrested the director and 12 staff members of the provincial vehicle registration center on charges of accepting bribes.

-- Two men both aged 19 were killed after their motorbike collided with a bus carrying military recruits in northern Thai Binh Province on Monday morning, authorities confirmed later the same day.

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