Amid business decline, some South Korean businessmen have gone bankrupt or shut down their business and left for their home country. It’s unclear if they will come back.

HCM City has issued a Resolution on the income level of experts and scientists for the fields the city needs to attract talents in the 2018-2022 period.

The city’s Vice Chair Vo Van Hoan has signed a decision on organizing exams to select leaders and managerial officers for local public agencies.

Leading rock bands and singers from across the country are set to perform in the World Rock Vietnam concert which will get underway on December 10 in Ho Chi Minh City.

Conductor Leon Bosch from the Netherlands will lead a concert featuring masterpieces by European composers at the HCM City Opera House on Saturday, October 8.

HCM City is speeding up procedures to start the construction of key traffic works at gateways by the end of the year, according to HCM City's Department of Transport.

HCM City plans to establish an economic zone of ​​up to 26,000 hectares in ​​four districts in the 2025 - 2030 period.

Multiple sites in HCM City, including bus stops, metro trains and the newly opened Thu Thiem 2 Bridge, have been vandalised with graffiti.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction, over the past 20 years, the city has removed 36,000 slum areas along canals, but there are still about 20,000 of them.

The Saigon Port Joint Stock Company, in collaboration with the Department of Tourism of Ho Chi Minh City and some units, on October 2, held a ceremony to welcome the luxury cruise ship Le Laperouse of Ponant (France).

Die-hard entrepreneurs are re-inventing themselves to solve business problems and find their niches in Ho Chi Minh City.

HCM City has run out of Covid-19 vaccines over the past 10 days, said Nguyen Hong Tam, the deputy director of the municipal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

HCM City has launched a special music programme offering street performances outside the Opera House in District 1, as part of its efforts to entertain and attract locals and visitors.

After nearly ten years with many policy changes, up to now, the attraction of experts, scientists, and people with special talents to work in the public sector is still a problem that Ho Chi Minh City has not yet had a good solution for it.

HCM City lacks 6,000 teachers for the new school year, the municipal Education and Training Department has said.

The competent forces in HCMC have suspended 26 businesses providing karaoke and bar services for violating fire safety regulations and imposed administrative fines of over VND1.2 billion on violators.

An ancient human skeleton dating back about 2,300 years has been discovered at the Giong Ca Vo archaeological site in Ho Chi Minh City’s Can Gio district.

Although the housing market in HCMC has recovered since early this year, backed by the rises in supply and transactions, the future prospect remains somber.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has just announced the reopening of bus route 109 which connects the city centre and Tan Son Nhat Airport from September 13.

The Ministry of Transport has called on the Ministry of Defence to hand over land to the HCM City People’s Committee to soon start work on passenger terminal 3 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.