The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council has passed a resolution on socio-economic development tasks in 2023, aiming to achieve economic growth of between 7.5%-8% next year.

HCMC’s unique floating flower market on the lunar New Year is scheduled to open on January 6-21 (on the 5th -30th days of the last lunar month).

HCMC will refund VND200 billion to the build-operate-transfer (BOT) investor of Tan Ky-Tan Quy bridge for their expenses after the investment form of the project has been changed.

Ho Chi Minh City's import and export turnover by the end of November reached US$101.6 billion, thereby becoming the first locality in the country to pass the US$100 billion mark.

The HCM City People’s Council at a recent meeting discussed additional income for state officers so they feel more secure at work.

The 76.34km Belt Road No3 project, which runs through HCM City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai and Long An, is the largest of its kind in the south.

The HCMC People’s Committee has proposed investing over VND9.6 trillion in the Xuyen Tam Canal upgrade project at a meeting this morning, December 7, according to the local media.

HCM City is preparing to launch a series of festivities to celebrate the New Year and Tet holidays (Lunar New Year).

HCM City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen said the city has a bad reputation for robbery and he has asked relevant bodies to deal with this.

Ho Chi Minh City expects to fully exploit bleisure travel - a novel type of tourism combining business travel with leisure time.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on December 2 chaired a Politburo meeting on a project to review the 10-year implementation of a resolution on the orientations and tasks for the development of HCMC until 2020 and 2030, with a vision to 2050.

The HCM City Department of Health has just proposed that foreign doctors should be fluent in Vietnamese if they want to work in the country.

More than 98% residents of Ho Chi Minh City – the most populous locality in Vietnam - now possess COVID-19 antibodies, according to a survey announced by the municipal Health Department on November 28.

With the elimination of over 25,000 "residential people’s groups", HCM City has cut 38,000 part-time officers.

HCM City’s environmental sector is taking steps to prevent illegal dumping of domestic waste transported from neighbouring provinces to the city.

PM Pham Minh Chinh on November 27 inspected a number of infrastructure projects in HCM City, including the expansion of Binh Hung waste treatment plant, the construction of Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway and the upgrading of National Highway 50.

HCMC is making effort to reduce groundwater exploitation to 100,000 cubic meters per day to combat land subsidence, the HCMC Department of Natural Resources and Environment said.

As many as 50,000 workers in HCM City have witnessed falling incomes so far this year, said an official from the HCM City Labour Federation.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed to ban sleeper buses entering the city centre between 6am and 10pm from the middle of next month in an effort to crack down on picking up and dropping off passengers illegally.

The HCM City Institute for Development Studies (HIDS) has drawn up three scenarios for HCM City economic growth rate in 2023, with growth rates of 7.5, 7.03 or 8.08 percent.