Export processing zones (EPZs) and industrial parks (IPs) in Ho Chi Minh City attracted over US$90.1 million worth of capital in the first quarter of 2023, increasing by 21.36 percent year-on-year and fulfilling 16.39 percent of the yearly plan.
The Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs will continue to renovate itself to further enhance its operational efficiency, thus optimizing OV’s contributions to the construction and development of the city in the new period.
Ho Chi Minh City has cut short the procedures for issuing work permits for foreigners and digitalized the application process to make it easy for enterprises to get work permits for their foreign staff.
Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council Nguyen Thi Le on March 8 received Melissa Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the US Department of State, who is on a working visit to the city.
Ministries and businesses have put in a great deal of effort in luring international visitors to Vietnam, but the number of foreign tourists has always been lower than to other countries in the region.
Canadian travel magazine The Travel has listed the southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) among the top 10 Asian cities that can be considered a dream for every street food lover.
Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City and Germany’s Frankfurt have agreed to further strengthen cooperation between the localities across fields at their meeting in the southern economic hub on February 13.
Two Vietnamese cities, Ho Chi Minh City and Hoi An, have been listed among the Top 6 ASEAN destinations winning TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Best of The Best 2023 Awards.
As an economic locomotive, Ho Chi Minh City has always led the country in terms of investment attraction, drawing the attention of foreign investors from around the world.
The Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation (EVNHCMC) has been ranked in the world’s 2022 smart grid index (SGI) with a score of 71.4 as complied by Singapore’s SP Group.
Apart from local travelers, hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors flocked to tourist sites across the country during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
Residents in Ho Chi Minh City can welcome the Year of the Cat with firework displays at six locations on the Eve of the Lunar New Year, Vietnam’s largest national holiday.
Unlike previous months, Ho Chi Minh City recorded a month-on-month decline of 0.07 percent in its December consumer price index (CPI), the municipal Statistics Office said on December 30.
Ho Chi Minh City has plans to restore 31 monuments and relics across districts and Thu Duc city, including Tan Quy Dong communal house and Hung Loi ceramic kiln.
As people are forced to tighten their purse strings due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tet (Lunar New Year) gift hampers have become more affordable, Tin Tuc (News) newspaper reported.
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) held a ceremony on December 20 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Vietnam - Republic of Korea (RoK) diplomatic relations.
Vice Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee Phan Thi Thang received Jeremy Harrison, Minister of Trade and Export Development at the Government of Saskatchewan province in Canada’s Prairie region, on December 15 to discuss cooperation promotion.
Under the framework of the first Ho Chi Minh City Friendship Dialogue (FD HCMC), Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee Phan Van Mai yesterday received Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Governor of Champasak Province Vilayvong Bouddakham.
