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Weekend Stories Roundup: Public Bikes, VinID and Forest Protection

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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

- Tan Son Nhat airport at risk of flooding during rainy season. [Dan Tri]

- Public bicycles: good solution in Hoi An, but not in big cities like HCM City. [VietnamNet]

Vietnam

- High-school graduates turn away from higher education. [VietnamNet]

- VND28trn to be spent on forest protection. [Dan Tri]

- VinID acquires MonPay e-wallet. [VnExpress]

- ‘The Third Wife’ producer fined $2,100 after film pulled from Vietnam cinemas. [Tuoi Tre]

- Homestay owners hurt by price war of big hotels near Vietnam’s UNESCO Heritage site. [Tuoi Tre]

Other

- A Lesson From 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media. [The Atlantic]

- Two Vietnamese workers stabbed to death by robbers in Angola. [VnExpress]

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