Ho Chi Minh City

The Ho Chi Minh city Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on September 12th held a conference discussing the application of scientific and technological achievements to make the city’s agriculture become a centre of animal and fisheries breeding in the Southern region.

APEC workshop on enabling MSME access to the digital economy was held in Ho Chi Minh city on September 12th as a sideline activity of the SMEs Ministerial Meeting and related events.

The closing program of the friendship exchange between Vietnamese and Cambodian youth was held in Ho Chi Minh city on September 11th by the Vietnam Youth Federation.

Some 30 French businesses participated in a workshop introducing the potential and investment opportunities of the Da Nang Hi-tech Zone, held by the French Business Confederation (MEDEF) in Paris on September 11th.

A forum to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to better access financial sources in the digitization era was held on September 11th, in Ho Chi Minh city as a sideline activity of the APEC 2017 SMEs Ministerial Meeting.

The APEC 2017 Start-ups Forum hosted by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the sidelines of the SMEs Ministerial Meeting officially opened on September 12th in Ho Chi Minh city.

The third APEC Senior Officials' Meeting and related meetings (SOM 3) which was held in Ho Chi Minh city late August marked two thirds of the APEC Year 2017. This was considered the final important event to prepare for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Summit to be held in Da Nang city this November.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of the Ho Chi Minh city Public Security on September 9th worked with the city Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) and some sponsors to organize a program giving free eye surgeries to poor patients at Nguyen Trai hospital.

The “APEC Online-to-Offline (O2O) Forum”, which opened for APEC 2017 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Ministerial Meeting, took place in Ho Chi Minh city on September 10th.

(CPV) - Vietjet Air and Ho Chi Minh city Department of Tourism have signed a cooperation agreement to promote tourism and aviation in the 2017 - 2019 period.

An operetta performance titled “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat or Revenge of the Bat) by Johann Strauss II took place in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city on September 9th for its premiere.

After the first batch of 131 cars supplied in Hanoi in April, the second, which consists of 258 cars, has been handed over for the APEC National Committee by Audi Vietnam to serve APEC in Da Nang city.

Ho Chi Minh city has received cash and goods worth over VND8.5 billion from 133 agencies and individuals to support flood-affected people in northwestern localities, the city Fatherland Front said on September 7th.

Director of the film "Kong: Skull island" Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who is Vietnam’s tourism Ambassador, attended the opening day of the 13th International Travel Expo (ITE) in Ho Chi Minh city.

A ceremony took place at Dong Thap University, in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on September 9th to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Vietnam-Laos diplomatic ties (September 5th, 1962) and the 40th year of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty on Amity and Cooperation (July 18th, 1977).

Vice Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Tat Thanh Cang had separate meetings on September 8th with youths from Laos and Cambodia who were in the city to attend the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia Youth Cooperation Conference.

Vietnam desires to promote cooperation with Italy in tourism promotion, cultural exchange, heritage preservation and sports.

Ho Chi Minh city will prepare an industrial zone specifically for newly-established businesses, with simplified procedures in registration, while it will conduct pilot public-private cooperation in supporting start-up businesses for more rapid development.

On September 7th, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee Huynh Cach Mang received a delegation from Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh led by Vice Mayor Keo Sokpisey, on a working visit.

The Ho Chi Minh city Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO) and the Vietnam - Malaysia Friendship Association in Ho Chi Minh city held a meeting to mark the 60th National Day of Malaysia (August 31st).

(CPV) - Vietjet Air has offered 700,000 promotional tickets priced just from USD0 (excluding taxes and fees) at the golden hours from 12h to 14h of September 7th-9th.

By the end of August 2017, overseas remittances to Ho Chi Minh city totalled USD3 billion, a year-on-year rise of 5%, said the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) - Ho Chi Minh city branch, on September 6th.

A seminar to discuss solutions to attract Chinese tourists to Vietnam's southern hub was co-organized by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and the Ho Chi Minh city Department of Tourism on September 7th.

Vietnam and Cambodia agreed to increase cooperation in seeking, gathering and repatriating sets of remains of Vietnamese volunteers and experts who sacrificed their lives during wars in Cambodia in the 16th meeting of the two Governments’ Special Working Committees, held in Ho Chi Minh city on September 6th.

The Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh city had an added attraction for visitors, with the appearance of nearly 100 cars serving APEC 2017.

The 5th Japan-Vietnam Festival, themed “Hold hands together”, will be held at September 23rd Park in Ho Chi Minh city on January 26th - 28th, 2018.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc agreed in principle with Ho Chi Minh city’s proposal on administrative decentralisation to a maximum possible extent during a working session in Hanoi on September 6th with the Standing Board of the municipal Party Committee.

The APEC 2017 start-ups forum will be held on the sidelines of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Ministerial Meeting on September 11th-12th, in Ho Chi Minh city, said the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry on September 5th.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is scheduled to speak at the APEC 2017 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Ministerial Meeting, which will be held on September 15th in Ho Chi Minh city.

Over 1.6 million pupils in Ho Chi Minh city on September 5th started the new school year, an increase of over 59,000 pupils compared to the previous season.