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

Hanoi

 - UNIQLO to open first store in Hanoi city. [Vietnam Plus]

- Hanoi named cheapest city for backpacking in Asia. [Nhan Dan]

Vietnam

- Bamboo Airways soars to $13 million profit. [VnExpress]

- 13 more air quality monitors installed in Ho Chi Minh City. [Tuoi Tre]

- Quang Binh cracks down on drug trafficking. [Saigon Times]

- 800,000 tonnes of unexploded ordnance remains in Vietnam. [Dan Tri]

- 30 Vietnamese companies sell goods on Amazon in 2019. [Vietnam+]

- Repair of AAG cable to finish ahead of Tet. [Vietnam+]

- Vietnam’s Mu Cang Chai should top 2020 travel list: CNBC. [Tuoi Tre] 

Other

- Venomous Menace: Snakebite Treatments Are Failing in India. [Scientific American]

- Nasa planet hunter finds potentially habitable Earth-sized world just 100 light years away. [South China Morning Post] 

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