Ho Chi Minh City

The Trade Union of HCM city Education Sector has launched all female officers, teachers, and schoolgirls to wear Ao dai in March to respond to the 5th HCM city Ao dai Festival 2018.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan highly valued cooperation between Vietnam and Germany, including educational collaboration, while receiving Professor, Honorary Doctor Horst Hippler, who is President of the German Rectors’ Conference, on February 28th.

The Ho Chi Minh city Union of Friendship Organizations and the Liaison Committee for Vietnamese in Laos and Thailand (LCV) organized an annual meeting to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Dog on February 25th.

According to the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee, the city has promptly and fully realized the Party and State policies on giving assistance during the lunar New Year festival to revolutionary contributors, poor people, beneficiaries and extremely disadvantaged children.

Residents and tourists in Ho Chi Minh city will have different choices for destinations during the upcoming lunar New Year festival as the city has prepared a wide range of events, including Nguyen Hue flower street, book festivals, flower fairs, fireworks and sticky rice cake festivals.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan visited the Congregation of the Holy Cross Lovers of Thu Thiem in District 2 on February 9th on the occasion of the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year (Tet).

As the Vietnamese lunar New Year festival approaches, on February 8th, the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee held a meeting with foreign representative offices in the city for reinforcing cooperative friendships.

Nguyen Thien Nhan, Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee, on February 7th received Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sigrid Kaag on a visit to the city.

More than 5,000 products at Co.opmart, Co.opXtra and Co.op Food supermarkets nationwide will be discounted in order to serve the consumption and shopping demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet).

The Ho Chi Minh city Farmers’ Association in collaboration with the city Television on January 28th organized a program, entitled “Doing good deeds during Tet”, to raise funds supporting the city’s poor and nearly-poor farmers.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has lauded staff of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) - the oldest and largest university in Cambodia - for their contributions to human resources training in Cambodia, Vietnam and countries.

Ho Chi Minh City pledges to work with Japan to deploy cooperation programmes to foster economic, cultural and educational ties and people-to-people exchanges this year, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.

Japan is willing to support Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh city in carrying out development projects, especially those on water environment, urban railway and natural disaster prevention.

During his talks with Sinlavong Khutphaythun, mayor of Laos’ capital Vientiane, on January 22nd, Nguyen Thien Nhan, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee, confirmed that his city would be willing to support Vientiane’s development by sharing experience and solutions.

Nearly 3,000 lecturers, students and labourers in Ho Chi Minh city on January 21st donated blood in response to the 10th national blood donation drive, Red Sunday, organized by the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper in collaboration with the National Traffic Safety Committee and the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion.

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee Huynh Cach Mang has expressed his hope that the French Anti-corruption Agency (FAA) and the HCM city Inspectorate will cooperate with each other and exchange experience in the fight against corruption.

A week displaying products of Lao enterprises will be held at Le Van Tam Park, district 1, Ho Chi Minh city, from January 24th to 28th.

Diverse universities in Ho Chi Minh city have invested in constructing and upgrading their facilities, to offer more modern and functional services to satisfy the research demand of students.

Over 30,000 pupils and students in Ho Chi Minh city are joining a voluntary campaign lasting from January 14th - February 11th, aiming to provide a better lunar New Year festival (Tet) to people in need.

Over the past two years, the turnover of book distribution enterprises at Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city book street has reached nearly VND67 billion.

At the age of 27, Bui Minh Thang from Ho Chi Minh city’s Cu Chi district, has become the owner of a nearly 1,500 square metres-mushroom farm, bringing a benefit of over VND200 million each month, and creating jobs for dozens of local laborers.

LJ International Lighting Festival is being held on a large scale in Ho Chi Minh city, from 18h30 to 23h00 daily, and lasting until March 23rd.

(CPV) - The Australian Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh city will host its second annual Australia Day Family event on January 28th, 2018 at RMIT Saigon South Campus in District 7, from 13h00-18h00.

In 2017, Ho Chi Minh city actively realized ethnic minority policies by combining them with the implementation of socio-economic development programs, paying attention to boosting sustainable poverty reduction and providing vocational training and jobs for ethnic minority people.

A meeting was held in Ho Chi Minh city on January 9th by the city Union of Friendship Organizations and the city Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Association to mark the 59th anniversary of Cuban National Day (January 1st) and award the painting contest in commemoration of the 50th death anniversary of Che Guevara.

As part of the exchange between pupils, students and young people of Ho Chi Minh city and Japan’s Osaka prefecture, on January 9th, Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee Nguyen Thi Thu received a delegation of pupils from the Japanese prefecture.

More than 100 students aged 6-15 from primary and secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh city on January 7th participated in a painting contest to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Vietnam-Singapore diplomatic relations.

The 12th Taste of the World Festival will take place at Le Van Tam Park, district 1, Ho Chi Minh city, from January 11th to 14th.

Ho Chi Minh city has started to apply special mechanisms to address traffic jams and environmental pollution, increase residents’ living standard, push up administrative reform, improve investment environment, and streamline personnel work.

Over 300 mobile shipments of Tet goods, to be sold at reasonable prices serving workers and labourers in export processing and industrial zones as well as residents in the outskirts regions of Ho Chi Minh city, will be handled by agencies and businesses during the 2018 lunar New Year festival.