Ho Chi Minh City police have charged and detained six Philippine nationals accused of staging rigged card games to defraud foreign tourists.

More than 38.8 million visitors traveled to Ho Chi Minh City in the first seven months of 2026, pushing tourism revenue to 72% of its full-year target.

A total of 93 international students are joining young Vietnamese volunteers in the 33rd Green Summer Volunteer Campaign in Ho Chi Minh City in 2026, contributing to community projects while fostering friendship and cultural exchanges.

Ho Chi Minh City is expanding its cultural industry through closer integration of the arts and tourism, while a new concert project aims to bring Vietnamese pop music to North America in late 2026.

Thousands of Vietnamese football fans gathered at Saigon Riverside Park on July 20 for a 24-hour Coca-Cola festival culminating in a live screening of the 2026 FIFA World Cup™ Final.

Every bone and tooth recovered at Le Thi Rieng Park undergoes a meticulous DNA sampling process, offering renewed hope of identifying Vietnamese soldiers who have remained unknown for nearly six decades.

Ho Chi Minh City is set to introduce a free textbook loan programme for all students in general education, continuing education and literacy programmes from the 2026-2027 academic year.

The two sides will study and localise key technologies covering signalling, communications, power supply, electromechanical systems (E&M), SCADA, operations control centres (OCC), automatic fare collection (AFC) and platform screen doors (PSD).

Success is measured not solely by annual GRDP, but by how much more value each unit of capital, each hectare of land, and each hour of labor generates.

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.