VietNamNet Bridge – Rains and high tides have blocked drains in many areas in HCM City because of illegal building near canals, sewers, manholes and sluice gates.

VietNamNet Bridge – Food mixed with chemicals will be placed at food processing plants, animal husbandry farms, hotels, bus and railway stations in 24 districts in Ho Chi Minh City--to kill brown rats that cause acute renal failure.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A new Schengen visa application centre will open in Ho Chi Minh City after the New Year.

Open bidding for Metro line 2 in first quarter 2013; Government to apply new minimum wage rates; Leading firms pessimistic about new year prospects; Car import stays low at festive time

Answering the questions of HCM City People’s Council deputies, the Deputy Director of HCM City Police Agency said the police planed to call for travel firms to contribute cash to pay reward of VND5 million ($250) for those who catch robbers.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City police have arrested six gangs of container thieves, totaling 51 people, who made a series of thefts at the city’s ports and warehouses, worth $1.3 million.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The departments, agencies and Government officials that contributed to lower-than-expected budget revenues for HCM City this year must be identified, delegates at a city council meeting have said.

The number of foreign-direct invested enterprises based in HCM City and southern Dong Nai Province that have suspended operations has increased in the last few months, leaving thousands of local workers jobless

An international gastronomy festival featuring the cuisine of 25 countries and territories will take place next week in HCM City, said La Quoc Khanh, Deputy Director of the city's Culture, Sports and Tourism Department.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City encountered more challenges this year than the previous year because of economic uncertainty locally and worldwide, a report from the HCM City People's Committee stated.

VietNamNet Bridge - Lieutenant General Pham Quy Ngo, Deputy Minister of Public Security, said that HCM City police should learn from the model 141 taskforce of Hanoi to suppress crime.

For years now, Ho Chi Minh City authorities have been convinced that river tourism is an important, viable and lucrative marketing product to enhance and enrich the City’s hospitality industry,

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to treat all wastewater discharge and solid and toxic waste from factories, hospitals and households by 2015.

Art lovers who wish to see masterpieces of famous artists in the Louvre Museum in France or museums across the world don’t have to go far, as abundant reproductions of their artworks are part of a flourishing market

Many companies in HCM City’s industrial parks and export processing zones have organized activities to help improve male workers’ knowledge on reproductive health, marriage and to improve their cultural and spiritual life.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

South Korea pushes for trade deal; Cashew producers to halt exports if decree approved; Ha Noi industrial index rises 5.1% in 11 months; PM requests that EVN withdraw from non-core businesses; HCM City aims at GDP growth of 9.5-10% in 2013

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will stage the second qualifying round of the Asian Football Confederation U19 Women's Championship at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City from December 1-9.

After many explosions, columns of smoke of hundreds of meters high rose from a depot next to the Linh Trung Export Processing Zone in Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City at noon on November 28.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Luong Luu Bien opens next Thursday at HCM City's Craig Thomas Gallery.