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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
- Five injured as car hits 8 bikes in Saigon. [VnExpress]
- 3,000 Da Nang returnees to HCMC skip Covid-19 tests. [VnExpress]
- Vietnam’s Eximbank reopens transaction office exposed to COVID-19 patient. [Tuoi Tre]
Vietnam
- Foreigners buy 16,000 homes in Vietnam in five years. [Saigon Times]
- Ten more patients in Danang recover from Covid-19. [Saigon Times]
- Vietnam confirms one more death, fourteen new cases of Covid-19. [SGGP]
- 173 hotels register to serve as quarantine areas. [SGGP]
- Vietnam’s defense ministry working with Cuban experts on COVID-19 vaccine production. [Tuoi Tre]
Other
- Beirut blast: dozens of historic buildings in Lebanon capital at risk of collapse. [The Guardian]
- The Science of Sourdough: How Microbes Enabled a Pandemic Pastime. [Scientific American]
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