Ho Chi Minh City

The Ho Chi Minh city Department of Tourism has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MoU) with Japan’s city Nagano as part of the city’s trade and investment promotion activities in Japan from April 6th to 15th, 2017, reported the Saigon Times.

An exhibition hall featuring more than 100 life-size statues of Vietnamese artists working in theatre, movie and music was opened at Hoa Binh Theatre, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City on April 11th.

Continuing their visit to Japan, on April 11th, a delegation from Ho Chi Minh city led by Dinh La Thang, Politburo member and Secretary of the city Party Committee, met with Aichi prefecture Governor Hideaki Ohmura, in order to study opportunities for cooperation and building sustainable partnership between the two localities.

As many of 138 photos taken by Nguyen Minh Loc, a former photojournalist of the Vietnam News Agency, from 1962 to 1984 in Quang Ninh and Quang Binh provinces are on display at an exhibition which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 10th.

A meeting was held in Ho Chi Minh city on April 10th to prepare contents for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women and the Economy Forum, to be entitled Increasing Integration and Enhancing Women's Economic Empowerment in the Changing World of Technology, which will be held in September.

A delegation from Ho Chi Minh city led by Vo Thi Dung, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee, on April 10th visited the Lao Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh city, and extended best wishes to the consulate’s cadres, staff and members of the Lao community who live and study in the city on the occasion of the Lao New Year Festival, Bun Pi May.

Over the first three months of the year, Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city granted investment licenses to 141 FDI projects with a total capital of more than USD133 million, and 42 ongoing projects with an increased capital of USD89.6 million, according to the city Department of Planning and Investment.

(CPV) – The Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee Commission on Popularization and Education and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Online Newspaper, in Hanoi on April 11th signed a deal of cooperation on dissemination of information about the southern city.

The District 1 People’s Committee on April 9th proposed to the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee opening more canteens and kiosks to sell souvenirs at Nguyen Hue walking street to attract visitors.

During his working visit to Japan, Dinh La Thang, Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee, on April 10th met with Japan’s Nagano prefecture Governor and the two localities signed a memorandum of understanding on industrial, tourism, agricultural and human resources cooperation.

A waste recycling festival was held by the Ho Chi Minh city Department of Natural Resources and Environment on April 9th, encouraging people to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, for sustainable production and consumption.

Ho Chi Minh city has put into operation a portal of e-books about President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style at thuviensachhochiminh.tphcm.gov.vn since the beginning of this year, adding an easy-to-access source of documents for those who want to study about the great President.

(CPV) – On April 4th, the People’s Committees of Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city and Tien Giang province organized a conference to partially sum up the cooperative program for socio-economic development between the two localities in the 2009-2016 period, and cooperative orientations for the 2017-2020 period.

The fifth Ho Chi Minh city Agricultural Breed Exhibition-Fair will be held on June 2017 at the city Biotechnology Center in District 12.

The Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee has adopted a project to build a vocational practice centre for disabled people and orphans, using a capital of VND8 billion.

In 2017, Ho Chi Minh city is striving to reduce the number of traffic accidents by at least 5%, as well as the number of fatalities and the number of injured people in traffic accidents compared to 2016, while addressing traffic congestion in 37 points, especially in Cat Lai Port and Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

The Ho Chi Minh City Police announced that it had busted a drug trafficking ring led by Nguyen Thi Anh Thu (also called Na), born in 1994, and residing in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh (HCM) city, in the first three months of the year, continued to see higher economic growth compared to the same period last year, through positive influences like total social investment capital, number of newly-established enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment, exports and capital mobilization through banks.

The Ho Chi Minh city’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) in March 2017 decreased 0.09% from the previous month, and increased 5.6% over a year earlier, according to the city Statistics Office.

Over 4,000 officials in Ho Chi Minh city on March 30th joined an online meeting titled “Reforming working style” and “Increasing revolutionary morality and sweeping away individualism” to study and grasp thoroughly Ho Chi Minh’s works.

(CPV) - Cu Chi district is located in the transition area between the Southeastern region and the Mekong Delta. It has various advantages to develop tourism.

As of March 20th, budget collection in Ho Chi Minh city reached VND20.746 trillion, up nearly 20% compared to the same period of 2016 or fulfilling 19% of the year’s plan, reported the city Customs Department.

The Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee on March 29th held a ceremony to receive the first-class Development Order from Laos, as part of activities to mark the 55th year of Vietnam - Laos diplomatic relations (September 5th) and 40th year of the Vietnam - Laos Friendship and Cooperation Treaty (July 18th).

(CPV) - The sixth International Maritime Exhibition (INMEX) on March 29th opened at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh city.

Ho Chi Minh city now has 40 trade centres, 193 supermarkets, 240 traditional markets and nearly 900 stores with 90% of commodities made- in- Vietnam, according to the city Steering Committee for the “Vietnamese prioritizing the use of Vietnamese goods” campaign.

Farmers in Phuoc Hiep commune, Cu Chi district in Ho Chi Minh city, are harvesting rice these days, gaining an average productivity of 8 tons per hectare and profit of over VND30 million per hectare.

Nguyen Thanh Phong, 12th PCC member and Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee, on March 28th received a delegation from Laos’ Xiangkhouang province led by Somkot Mangnomek, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and the province’s Governor.

During his reception for Thomas Vallely, President of the Trust for University Innovation in Vietnam (TUIV) and Director of the Vietnam Program at Harvard University, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong discussed issues relating to the project on building Fulbright University Vietnam.

Apart from joining production and contributing to the national development, the youth have carried out diverse activities serving communities which cover humanitarian work, traffic safety and the application of science and technology in production.

To actively prevent natural disasters in 2017, the Ho Chi Minh city People’s Committee has asked Departments and localities to complete maps to help warn residents of floods caused and affected by strong and very strong storms.