Ho Chi Minh City

The Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City People’s Committee has just decided to realize the project of establishing and developing an innovative and highly interactive urban area in the East of the Thu Duc City in the 2020-2025 period, replacing the previous decision.

Ho Chi Minh City defines the goal of "Building Ho Chi Minh City into a Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space, where President Ho Chi Minh's thought, morality, style and career are always present, becoming the spiritual property and typical cultural values of the people, cadres and Party members.”

Chairman of the City People's Committee Phan Van Mai has said that the city will continue to closely coordinate with consular agencies and international organizations in organizing cultural exchanges, health care and education activities, contributing to creating mutual understanding and closer relationship for mutual development.

On January 25, in Ho Chi Minh City, the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO) celebrated the 73rd anniversary of the Independence Day of the Republic of India (January 26, 1950-January 26, 2022).

Ho Chi Minh City recorded 9 COVID-19 patients who died on January 16, in addition to 6 cases transferred from other provinces and cities.

Ho Chi Minh City's Youth Employment Services (YES) Centre and the Federations of Labour of the city and Go Vap district has held an event to introduce employment opportunities to labourers who lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Thu Duc City recently organized a ceremony to launch a tree-planting and environmental hygiene movement in the locality.

A social housing project of 1,000 flats for workers has been recently kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City's Thu Duc city, which will provide affordable accommodation to around 3,000 people.

The armed forces in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) was praised for the spirit of serving the people by HCM Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen at a conference recently organized by the Ho Chi Minh City High Command to review the COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control in the locality.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front's Ho Chi Minh City Chapter To Thi Bich Chau has received a donation worth LAK100 million (US$8,200) from Laos’ Attapeu Province to support the city in COVID-19 prevention and control.

More than 1,800 students aged from 16 to 17 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cu Chi district and District 1 received their first COVID-19 vaccine shot on October 27.

From October 28, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee allows food service businesses to be served in-dining after five months of closure and delivery-only operations due to the severe COVID-19 outbreak.

(CPV) - The Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City People’s Council has approved a Resolution on the medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period with the city’s local budget capital.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has required southern localities to speed up COVID-19 vaccination in the next two, three weeks while continuing to keep pandemic prevention measures in firm place.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)’s Centre of Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labor Market Information (FALMI) said that over 85.7 percent of surveyed businesses in the city have been affected by COVID-19 pandemic in the third quarter of 2021.

As many as 346 pregnant women affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) were recently presented gifts by the Sai Gon Giai Phong (SGGP) Newspaper and the Ho Chi Minh City Women's Union.

The Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corporation (VNPT) and Thu Duc city has officially opened the intelligent operation centre, an important cog in helping the latter build a smart city and e-governance, after a five-month trial run.

Eight more bus routes in Ho Chi Minh City are resumed from October 25.

Thu Duc city launched the Intelligent Operation Center (IOC) on October 23.

The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has issued a set of safety criteria in COVID-19 prevention and control for all educational institutions in the city as a basis for deciding whether schools are allowed to organise educational activities or not.

According to the State Bank of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) branch, the city received 5.1 billion USD of overseas remittances in the first nine months of 2021, up 22 percent year on year.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has received more than 100,000 N95 masks in the fundraising campaign "100,000 N95 masks for Saigon" launched by the groups “Join Hands for Vietnam” and “Stay Strong Saigon” from July 27 and delivered the masks to doctors from nearly 100 hospitals and medical facilities in the city.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on October 20 received medical equipment and supplies worth nearly 22 billion VND (964,200 USD) and 400 tonnes of rice donated by organisations and businesses.

As many of 90 Cham and Khmer ethnic students in difficult circumstance in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City have received tablets for their online learning to amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City Department of Transport has proposed reopening a high-speed boat and water-bus route that connects the city with Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Binh Duong and Tien Giang provinces from October 20.

Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City Department of Construction is working with HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment to review statistics of the State's social housing land fund and has reported back to the City People’s Committee.

So far, about 150,000 workers have returned to Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the total number of employees working at 1,400 enterprises to 210,000; focusing on trade-services, tourism, transportation, processing, leather footwear and garments, said Mr. Le Minh Tan, Director of the city Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has just issued a master plan to develop the logistics industry in the city until 2025, with an orientation to 2030.

According to the city’s Social Insurance Agency, more than 111,000 employees in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City have benefited from the Government’s new support package sourced from the unemployment insurance fund.

The Ministry of Transport has just added two more domestic routes of Ho Chi Minh City-Ca Mau and Hanoi-Dien Bien to the list of routes to be resumed in the pilot phase.