What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse, and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi early on Tuesday morning to attend the 54th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and pay an official visit to Hungary and Romania through Tuesday next week.

Society

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy has completed an indictment against Tran Thi Ngoc Trinh, well known as Ngoc Trinh, a 34-year-old Vietnamese lingerie model, for allegedly causing social disorder with a punishment of imprisonment of two to seven years.

-- The People’s Court in Dak Lak Province, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, will open the first-instance trial on Tuesday for 100 people involved in armed attacks on the headquarters of two communes in the province on June 11 last year, a local official said on Monday.

-- The Department of Planning and Investment in Ho Chi Minh City has proposed delaying the planned completion time of a 2.7-kilometer section of Beltway No. 2 in the city to the end of 2026. The section was initially planned to be completed by 2023.

-- The People’s Court in Tra Vinh Province in southern Vietnam on Monday sentenced a 22-year-old woman and her 19-year-old lover to 10 and 13 years behind bars, respectively, for trafficking in their two-year-old daughter in late 2022.

Business

-- The Central Institute for Economic Management, at a workshop in Hanoi on Monday, unveiled two scenarios for Vietnam’s economic growth in 2024 with the gross domestic product (GDP) projected to expand 6.12 or 6.48 percent.

Lifestyle

-- Can Tho City in southern Vietnam will hold a high-altitude fireworks show and four low-altitude fireworks displays to ring in the 2024 Lunar New Year without using its budget. The city mobilized private resources for the fireworks shows.

Sports 

-- FIFA has assigned Vietnamese female referee Le Thi Ly and assistant referee Ha Thi Phuong to officiate in a match between North Korea and Japan on February 24 in the women's football third qualifying round for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

World news

-- “Boeing will add further quality inspections for the 737 MAX after a mid-air blowout of a cabin panel in an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 earlier this month,” Reuters reported, citing the head of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division on Monday.

-- “Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over the past year purchased small batches of Nvidia semiconductors banned by the U.S. from export to China,” a Reuters review of tender documents show.

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