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Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.

Saigon

- VNU–HCMC celebrates groundbreaking ceremony of youth space construction. [SGGP]

- PM assigns state company to build third terminal at Ho Chi Minh City airport. [Tuoi Tre]

Vietnam

- Thanh Hoa airport’s capacity to be raised to 5 million passengers. [Dan Tri]

- Resorts offer discounts to attract customers. [Dan Tri]

- Vietnam wants half of population to shop online by 2025. [VnExpress]

- 340 Vietnamese repatriated from India after long wait, arduous journeys. [VnExpress]

- British COVID-19 patient’s lungs improve, still relies on life support in Vietnam. [Tuoi Tre]

- Kovalevskaia Awards 2019 delivered to excellent Vietnamese female scientists. [SGGP]

Other

- All 50 States Are Now Reopening. But at What Cost? [New York Times]

- Japan to lift state of emergency for Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo this week. [Japan Times]

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