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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
- Flight to HCMC delayed after passenger found burning tissue paper [Saigon Times]
- HCMC campaign aims to improve children’s awareness of environmental protection [SGGP]
- HCM City to improve access to public transport [Vietnam Plus]
Vietnam
- Deforestation, construction to blame for central Vietnam landslides [VnExpress]
- Vietnam publishes draft protocol for quarantining entrants from international flights [Tuoi Tre]
- TH Group aims to have 200,000 cows by 2025 [Vietnam News]
- Appraisal council established for Hanoi’s metro No.5 project [Hanoi Times]
- Vietnam to close 2G services by 2022 [Retail News Asia]
- LG Electronics reaffirms plan to build 2nd R&D center in Vietnam [The Korean Herald]
- Typhoon Goni: ‘strongest storm in history’ heads for Vietnam after tearing across Philippines [South China Morning Post]
Other
- Australia's Bushfires Burned an Area Twice the Size of Florida. Climate Change Means That's Just the Beginning, a New Report Warns [Time]
- Turkey: 3-year-old girl rescued 65 hours after quake [Anadolu]
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