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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
- First food safety violator receives 1.5 year prison sentence in HCMC. [SGGP]
- HCM City ‘surprisingly new’ in New York Times story. [Dan Tri]
Vietnam
- Essex lorry deaths: Vietnam ‘strongly condemns’ trafficking. [The Guardian]
- Far from Vietnam's boomtowns, a rural region looks to distant shores. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
- Asia must quit 'coal addiction': UN chief. [VnExpress]
- Vietnam to lift MacBook Pro laptop ban on aircraft. [VnExpress]
- Soaked fans defy rain to party at 2019 Monsoon Music Festival in Hanoi. [Tuoi Tre]
- Vo Trong Nghia wins Dezeen Awards 'Architect of the year'. [Dan Tri]
Other
- Hong Kong protesters attack Chinese news agency offices. [The Guardian]
- Man who drafted laws against adultery publicly flogged after affair with married woman. [The Independent]
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