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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

- Costa Rican footballers to try out for Ho Chi Minh City FC. [VnExpress]

- Saigon underground parking project delayed further over planning overlap. [VnExpress]

Vietnam

- Vietnam man gets death for killing mother, grandmother as he saw them as ‘robots.’ [Tuoi Tre]

- Hanoi airport to minimize noise by trimming PA announcements. [Tuoi Tre]

- Ha Giang: At least five dead, two injured in torrential rain, flood. [SGGP]

- Da Nang quarantines twenty-four Chinese citizens illegally entering Vietnam. [SGGP]

- Vietnam’s commercial flight lands in China after five months of suspension. [Saigon Times]

- Vietnam reports five new imported cases of Covid-19. [Saigon Times]

Other

- What Is It That Keeps Most Little Kids From Getting Covid-19? [New York Times]

- China requires negative Covid-19 tests for arriving air passengers. [Straits Times]

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