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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

- Saigon to have 2,000 sanitation workers clean up through Tet. [VnExpress]

- HCMC to inspect motorbike emissions. [Saigon Times]

Vietnam

- Quang Nam seeking ways to develop village tourism. [Dan Tri]

- Northern region records hottest first weeks in 50 years. [Dan Tri]

- Hanoi to have enough pork during Tet: officials. [Vietnam Plus]

- Hanoi exhibition spotlights Soviet Union’s women. [Vietnam Plus]

- Da Nang to establish library for documents on Paracel Islands. [VnExpress] 

Other

- China reports 17 new cases of mystery virus. [Dan Tri]

- How Communist cruelty and Western folly built an underpopulation bomb. [NYT]

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