Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh has approved a list of projects to attract foreign investment in the 2021-2025 period, including three metro line projects in HCMC.

The HCM City police have busted what they said was the city’s largest ever online gambling ring, one that had carried out betting transactions worth nearly VNĐ90 trillion (US$3.94 billion).

Schools in HCM City will reopen for 1st, 9th, and 12th grade pupils from December 13 for a two-week pilot period.

HCM City is seeing a rising number of COVID-19 deaths, recording up to 70 COVID-19 deaths daily in the last week, around three times higher than the figure in late October.

If HCM City increases the land price coefficient too sharply and makes it closer to the market price, this will cause difficulties for land users and affect social welfare, analysts say.

The Management Board of the HCM City Green Transport Development Project has said there could be serious consequences if the city postpones the Bus Rapid Transit No 1 project.

Ho Chi Minh City is the leading locality in the country in economic reopening and recovery, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (AmCham Vietnam).

The HCM City Department of Education and Training plans to offer financial assistance to students and teachers in preschool education in areas with industrial parks.

HCM City will continue to streamline administrative procedures in an aim to improve the business climate and ensure people’s rights and obligations as part of its ongoing urban administration pilot project. 

Social isolation in HCM City has sparked interest in archery which improves focus and patience and rowing SUP (Stand Up Paddleboarding) which allows people to enjoy a riverside picnic.

Tan Binh Covid-19 Field Hospital currently has only 10 doctors for every working shift in charge of 200 severe cases being treated at the third level, the highest of the three-level hospital model.

Four more metro trains for HCM City's first metro line project connecting Ben Thanh Market with Suoi Tien Park will be shipped to the city in the next few weeks.

The HCM City Department of Construction has suggested that the city offer financial assistance to landlords to help them repair or upgrade their boarding houses where hundreds of thousands of workers live in the city.

The HCM City People’s Committee has set up 19 working groups to monitor the implementation of activities included in the city's COVID-19 pandemic response and socio-economic recovery plan.

The HCMC Department of Transport has proposed the municipal government pause a plan to develop the bus rapid transit (BRT) project until relevant traffic infrastructure projects are completed.

The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has begun a programme called ‘Mobile price-stabilisation sales points’ at export processing zones and industrial parks to ensure workers there can buy safe foods at fair prices.

The HCM City Fine Arts Association is hosting a month-long exhibition of its members’ artworks to celebrate its 40th anniversary which falls on November 28.

Ho Chi Minh City has asked the central Government for VND21.7 trillion (US$960 million) for three infrastructure projects and upgrading three hospitals.

The British Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City is collaborating with British artist Richard J Fawcett to present an exhibition honoring the beauty of HCM City.

HCM City authorities will spend more than VND28.4 trillion (US$1.3 billion) to relocate all inner-city slums along its canals as part of its scheme to beautify urban landscapes along canals by 2025, said a city official.