HCM City has cut short the procedures for issuing work permits for foreigners and digitalised the application process to make it easy for enterprises to get work permits for their foreign staff.

HCM City has continued witnessing a declining fertility rate, standing among 21 localities in the country with a low fertility rate.

A recent survey of 100 enterprises in HCM City found that the number of them paying monthly salaries of more than VND10 million a month fell from 80 percent in Q2 2022 to 65 percent in Q1 2023.

The Vietnam Furniture & Home Accessories Fair 2023 (VIFA EXPO 2023) will take place in HCM City on March 8-11, with the participation of 612 local and foreign companies.

The HCM City government has announced its digital data governance strategy for 2025 with a vision towards 2030.

The Criminal Police Department has teamed up with the police of Go Vap District, HCMC to search the headquarters of personal financial service provider F88 on Nguyen Oanh Street in the district over extortion allegations.

The HCM City government has instructed the Department of Construction to resolve the problems faced by 116 real estate projects, mostly legal bottlenecks, a demand made by the HCM City Real Estate Association (HoREA).

HCM City has great potential to become a UNESCO ‘World Book Capital’ thanks to having a number of venues and events promoting reading, according to local officials.

Cho Ray Hospital, the largest hospital in HCM City, has only two operating CT machines, while a number of other medical devices have stopped working, without being repaired. Patients have had to go to other hospitals for scans.

Twenty golfers from Singapore embarked on a three-day golf tour to the Tan Son Nhat golf course in HCMC, the first of its kind in the city, from March 1.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has activated its surveillance system for early detection of all potentially suspected infections of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (A/H5N1).

Pediatric experts said that viral respiratory viruses are the culprit of illness amongst schoolchildren in Binh Thanh District, HCMC. These respiratory viruses are common in children.

HCMC authorities are working out auction plans for land plots and 3,790 apartments in the Thu Thiem new urban area after their auctions failed for three consecutive times.

A 5.8-kilogram newborn baby has just been born by cesarean delivery at Hung Vuong Hospital in HCMC, announced the hospital on February 28.

Ho Chi Minh City Committee has requested the local Department of Planning and Investment select a new set of investors for the Saigon Silicon City project.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on February 27 chaired a virtual meeting on the draft resolution on Ho Chi Minh City’s development, which is intended to become a driving force for the city’s development.

Ho Chi Minh City is planning to apply for the title of UNESCO World Book Capital (WBC) in 2025, according to Lam Dinh Thang, Director of the municipal Department of Information and Communications.

While rents for affordable apartments remain steady in HCM City, they have fallen sharply and continue to do so in the case of high-end apartments.

The local authority has contacted 15 different businesses to find jobs for some 2,500 workers about to be laid off by PouYuen Vietnam this month, according to the HCMC Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The ninth Ao dai (traditional long dress) Festival will take place in Ho Chi Minh City throughout March with a wide range of cultural activities, the event’s organisers announced at a press conference held in HCM City on February 23.