Vung Tau Paradise Joint Venture Co. owes more than $84 million in taxes, topping a list of 4,125 businesses with outstanding tax and other state budget payments in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City plans to incorporate a "sponge city" model into its long-term urban planning, combining green and conventional infrastructure to tackle worsening flooding and adapt to climate change.

Ho Chi Minh City climbed again in the 40th Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 40), scoring 692 points to rank 67th among the financial centres assessed.

A former tour guide in Ho Chi Minh City left the career she had dreamed of since childhood to return home and preserve her family's traditional rice paper craft, now passed down through three generations.

Ho Chi Minh City will simultaneously begin construction at several underground stations on Metro Line 2 from Oct. 10, triggering extensive traffic diversions across the city center and major gateways.

Large seasonal orders are becoming harder to find while costs keep rising, forcing Vietnamese manufacturers to rethink production for the year-end peak, with some accepting low-margin work simply to keep employees on the job.

Ho Chi Minh City is racing to complete preparations for three metro lines spanning nearly 90 km and costing more than $9.6 billion, with construction targeted to begin by the end of 2026.

A senior public security official has pledged to investigate and publicly disclose the causes of textbook shortages at the start of Vietnam’s 2026-2027 school year, including identifying organizations and individuals responsible.

The Startup and Innovation Hub of Ho Chi Minh City (SIHUB), the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) and Plug and Play Singapore Pte. Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on September 30.

Ho Chi Minh City is using data, digital skills and new “digital destinations” to modernize governance while preserving the cultural heritage of its diverse ethnic and religious communities.

Construction has begun on two major bridges worth more than VND36.7 trillion ($1.4 billion), creating new links between Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai and improving access to Long Thanh airport.

Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested five people accused of posing as sellers, investors and businesspeople to pass off ordinary pebbles as meteorites worth millions of dollars.

Hundreds of residents evacuated a Ho Chi Minh City apartment building after a fire broke out in an 11th-floor unit on Tuesday evening, sending black smoke from its balcony.

HCM City has ordered relevant agencies and coastal localities to accelerate installation of the electronic catch documentation and traceability system (eCDT) on fishing boats, with the work to be completed by October 30, 2026.

Stavian Digital Park (SDP), a large-scale specialised digital technology park dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing, is set to be developed in HCM City.

Bare concrete and traces of construction form the backdrop to “Beauty, still,” a contemporary program of four works spanning dance, music and film that marks the debut of Saigon Art Hub in Ho Chi Minh City.

A new Ho Chi Minh City pilot gives 246 public schools more control over teacher recruitment, including the ability to hire foreign teachers under existing rules.

HCM City attracted a combined 5.7 billion USD in domestic and foreign investment to its export processing and industrial zones in the first nine months of 2026, reaching 131.15% of the full-year target and up 29.13% year-on-year.

Ho Chi Minh City will step up efforts to find and recover the remains of fallen soldiers, said Nguyen Manh Cuong, vice chairman of the municipal People’s Committee and head of the city’s steering committee for the work.

Competitive incomes alone are not enough to attract, retain and effectively utilise highly qualified personnel.