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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
- Downpour floods streets, uproots trees in Ho Chi Minh City. [Tuoi Tre]
- HCMC: CPI down 0.33 percent in May. [SGGP]
- HCMC banks offer support for 224,000 virus-hit businesses. [Saigon Times]
Vietnam
- PM allows over 300 Chinese traders to enter Vietnam to buy lychees. [VnExpress]
- Drought, scorching summer demand turn the heat on power industry. [VnExpress]
- 243 Vietnamese pregnant women repatriated from Taiwan. [Saigon Times]
- Residents lose sleep over subsidence in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. [Tuoi Tre]
- Tourism revenue reaches VND8,300 billion in the first five months. [SGGP]
Other
- 518 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore, including 3 community cases involving Singaporeans and PRs. [Straits Times]
- How China Is Planning to Win Back the World. [The Atlantic]
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