Ho Chi Minh City has been chosen as the first locality to carry out studies on the e-transportation development plan, given its huge potential.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has just issued a regulation on management, operation and exploitation of monitoring camera systems in Ho Chi Minh City, which is effective from January 22.

The HCM City People's Committee has added 44 old villas to the conservation list for their historical and cultural importance.

A festival that promotes Vietnamese people’s lunar New Year – known as Tet - was launched on January 16 evening in Ho Chi Minh City to welcome the coming 2022 Tet that falls on February 1.

The luxury and mid-priced apartment segments will continue to lead the market in 2022, while affordable apartments will remain scarce.

Ho Chi Minh City, the epicenter of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam, recorded 15 COVID-19 related deaths, including six severely ill cases earlier transferred from neighbouring localities for treatment.

Ho Chi Minh City will not have its usual firework displays on Lunar New Year's Eve this year, although a total of 18 other activities are set to run until February as part of the southern city’s Tet celebrations.

As the Covid-19 outbreak has been controlled in HCM City, local people are now preparing for the 2022 Lunar New Year (Tet).

Ho Chi Minh City plans to complete the vaccination of people at risk from COVID-19 by January 20 while pressing on with rapid testing for this group.

New books featuring HCM City's culture and lifestyle by foreigners have earned a warm response from local residents. 

Karaoke parlors were very crowded on January 10, the first day of the new normal for entertainment facilities in HCM City.

A number of ongoing traffic projects in HCM City, including bridges and roads, are nearing completion and are expected to be finished by year-end,

People who are about to enter HCMC through Tan Son Nhat International Airport need to have a negative RT-PCR test result within 72 hours before arrival in Vietnam.

Many enterprises in HCM City have successfully contributed to the economic recovery and development of the city after the pandemic.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Phan Van Mai emphasized stopping all non-essential activities with large gatherings during the incoming Lunar New Year holiday in light of Covid-19.

The VND10 trillion tide-prevention project, Subway No 1, Belt Road No 2, and Thu Thiem 2 Bridge are huge projects that have not been completed, even though they kicked off many years ago.

Ho Chi Minh City will reopen bars, dance clubs and karaoke parlors from January 10 after a period of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

HCM City People’s Committee has just issued urgent guidelines for a five-step quarantine procedure for arriving passengers amid the emergence of the Omicron variant in Vietnam.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment targets increasing the volume of domestic waste treated with incineration and recycling technologies to at least 80 per cent by 2025 and 100 per cent by 2030.

Land prices escalated despite Covid-19, which forced many people to tighten their purse strings.