Ho Chi Minh City

(CPV) - Sergei Rachmaninov Music Night will take place at Ho Chi Minh City’s Opera House on March 26 to mark the 150th birthday of the Russian famous romantic composer (1873 - 2023).

A program of free medical examinations, drug distribution and charity gift presentation for Cambodians and Vietnamese people in Borebo district, Kampong Chhnang province, Kingdom of Cambodia was organized by the Vietnamese Embassy, Cho Ray - Phnom Penh Hospital and Khmer-Vietnamese Association in Cambodia on March 18.

The District 6 People’s Committee has just proposed to the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to approve the investment policy of the Chợ Lớn Night Street project. If approved, the night street will operate 18 hours a day.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has just released a report summarizing the development of education and training for the 2011-2022 period, and tasks and solutions to develop education and training until 2030, with a vision to 2045.

On March 16, Phan Van Mai, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, received Mr. Mark Garnier, Trade Envoy of the UK Prime Minister to Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei and Vietnam, on his working visit to Ho Chi Minh City.

As many as 500,000 LED lights are decorated at Bach Dang Wharf Park on Ton Duc Thang Street in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)'s District 1 to mark the 50th anniversary of Vietnam – Japan diplomatic ties.

(CPV) - In 2023, Ho Chi Minh City strives to reduce the household poverty rate by 0.38% and the rate of households near poverty by 0.28% according to the city's multidimensional poverty line in the 2021-2025 period.

On March 14, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai met with Mr. Arsjad Rasjid, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on the occasion of his visit to the city.

On March 12, a delegation of the Ho Chi Minh City Public Security Communist Youth Union participated in a border journey program organized by the Youth Board of the People's Public Security and the Public Security of Dak Nong province.

Taking advantage of the empty space separate from the roads, the fields of the urban area of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, have recently become a destination for young people who love to fly kites.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has just requested the Ba Ria-Vung Tau provincial Department of Transport to coordinate and support the exploitation of passenger and tourist routes by waterway between the two localities.

The southern province of Dong Nai has agreed to develop 3 more bridges linking it with neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, and proposed the alignment and scale of the bridges.

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs on March 9 organized a conference on implementing the committee’s tasks in 2023.

The first Vietnamese “banh mi” festival will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from March 30 to April 2 with the participation of about 50,000 local people and tourists, according to the HCM City Tourism Association.

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs will continue to innovate itself to further strengthen its operational efficiency, thus optimizing overseas Vietnamese’s contributions to the construction and development of the city in the new period, heard at a conference implementing the committee’s tasks in 2023 held in the city.

At a reception on March 8 for President of the Association of Francophone Universities (AUF), Prof. Slim Khalbous, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai confirmed that the city will create favorable conditions for coordinating schools participating in AUF's programs, and will do its best to promote cooperation between schools and AUF.

32 small-scale oil paintings by Mexican painter Diego Rodarte are on display at an exhibition which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7.

A ceremony was held on March 8 to honor eight women, whose husbands and children bravely sacrificed themselves for national liberation and unification in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), with the “Vietnamese Heroic Mother” title.

On February 7, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai received Secretary of the Party Committee and Governor of Hua Phan province (Laos) Vanxay Phengsoumma.

Ho Chi Minh City leaders and over 3,000 women and lovers for Ao dai participated in a parade in Ao dai through boulevards of the city on March 5.

On March 6, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Phan Van Mai had a meeting with Mr. Nicolai Prytz, Ambassador of Denmark to Vietnam, during his business trip to Ho Chi Minh City.

A scientific seminar themed "Fine Arts in Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space" has been held by the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Fine Arts Association.

As the country's bright spot in reading culture, Ho Chi Minh City is making efforts to implement many solutions to develop books and reading culture, towards the goal of registering for the title of World Book Capital of UNESCO.

Ideological leadership, awareness unification in training is a central political task and a decisive condition for the armed forces of Ho Chi Minh City to fulfill the functions of the army in combat, work and production.

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee Bui Xuan Cuong on March 2 hosted a reception for Vice President of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) Nicholas Kolesch and Country Director of the SNV Netherlands Development Organization in Vietnam Peter Loach on the occasion their working visit to the city.

Through the bank-business connection program, commercial banks have disbursed 568.340 trillion VND in 2022, equal to 131% of the preferential credit package registered since the beginning of the year and an increase of 16.6% compared to 2021.

In the first two months of 2023, Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City leads the whole country in terms of new FDI projects (39.5%), number of adjusted projects (21.8%) and capital contribution to buy shares, purchase of contributed capital (69.3%), according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency.

In order to attract foreign investment, Dutch businesses proposed Ho Chi Minh City’s leaders deal with the traffic congestion, especially in the roads connecting to ports, logistics, neighboring provinces and cities.

Mr. Hoang Tung, Chairman of Thu Duc City People's Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Thu Duc City Party Committee, on February 27 received Mr. Daniel Stork, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).

The 8th Vietnam-Japan Festival under the theme “Vietnam-Japan stand side by side towards the future, reaching out to the world” has taken place in Ho Chi Minh City on February 25-26.