Nearly 14 million Ho Chi Minh City residents are to receive health screenings under a citywide campaign involving every level of the healthcare system.

Search teams have recovered 20 more sets of soldiers' remains at a park in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the total found in just over a week to 95.

Confidence in Vietnam's diamond trade has weakened after a series of investigations and temporary business closures, leaving buyers increasingly cautious.

Phu My 3 Specialised Industrial Park in Ho Chi Minh City is emerging as a model eco-industrial park, supporting Vietnam's sustainable development goals and its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.​

The Executive Board of the Vietnam International Financial Centre in Ho Chi Minh City (VIFC-HCMC) named a 13-member advisory board on July 12, including prominent domestic and foreign experts in finance, investment and policymaking.

HCM City is home to 20,259 FDI projects with total registered capital of nearly 142 billion USD from 152 countries and territories. In the first half of 2026, the city attracted more than 6.8 billion USD, fulfilling 62% of its annual target.

Search teams have uncovered additional remains of Vietnamese martyrs during an expanded excavation at Le Thi Rieng Park in Hoa Hung Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, including several sets of remains found stacked on top of one another.

Ho Chi Minh City's bus network has recorded nearly 2.5 million passenger trips in the first nine days of its fare-free program, with many routes now carrying full loads, replacing the once-familiar image of nearly empty buses.

A research team from Texas Tech University has handed over burial maps, wartime records and military files to Ho Chi Minh City to assist efforts to locate and identify missing war martyrs.

Nine years after an earlier search, Ho Chi Minh City has relaunched efforts to recover soldiers missing since the 1968 Tet Offensive, this time using advanced technology including ground-penetrating radar, resistivity surveys and DNA analysis.

Ho Chi Minh City has significant potential to build a vibrant world-class night-time economy by making better use of its cultural industries, experts said.

The Steering Committee for the Search, Recovery and Identification of Martyrs’ Remains of HCM City on July 9 received war memorabilia and burial records of fallen soldiers from the research team for the Vietnam Wartime Accounting Initiative (VWAI).

The passenger number on Ho Chi Minh City's bus network has increased by more than 30% year on year since the city introduced free fares on 134 subsidised routes on July 1, reflecting growing support for public transport.

Ho Chi Minh City police say they have frozen assets worth nearly US$5 million while investigating an alleged US$34.4 million vacation contract scam.

HCM City plans to introduce robotic surgery at its gateway hospitals as part of a strategy to build a network of high-quality regional medical hubs, expanding public access to advanced healthcare while easing patient overload at inner-city hospitals.

Vietnam has begun recovering fallen soldiers' remains from a newly discovered wartime burial site beneath Le Thi Rieng Park (HCM City), where personal belongings have helped identify the first fallen serviceman.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung has urged authorities to spare no effort in locating and identifying the remains of Vietnam's fallen soldiers during the launch of a major recovery mission in Ho Chi Minh City.

According to the Department of Finance, as of May 31, the city had nearly 21,000 active FDI projects worth over 143.3 billion USD, remaining Vietnam’s leading FDI destination. In the first half of 2026, FDI reached over 6.8 billion USD.

The search forms part of Ho Chi Minh City's 500-day campaign to recover and identify the remains of unidentified martyrs.

Hoa Hao Buddhists in Ho Chi Minh City marked the religion's founding anniversary with a ceremony highlighting humanitarian work, interfaith dialogue and national unity.