The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has just reported to the Ministry of Construction on implementing the housing policy and real estate market in 2022.

HCM City plans to add at least 10 hectares of parks and two hectares of public green spaces, and plant or rehabilitate 6,000 trees this year to make the city greener and more beautiful.

HCM City is planning to pilot the opening of casinos at hotels rated five stars and above in popular tourist destinations for Vietnamese citizens aged 18 and over.

HCM City planned to build four underground parking lots in the downtown area to meet its enormous demand for parking vehicles, but a decade on, parking lot projects remained on paper as none is likely to be built.

The number of transactions in the HCM City real estate market has soared.

Sai Gon River is a treasure and it’s time to act to awaken its potential, experts say.

The HCM City People’s Committee has decided to require foreign entries via Tan Son Nhat International Airport to have negative testing results before exiting.

HCMC has seen almost all manufacturing enterprises resume after the Covid pandemic and operate at over 95% capacity.

HCM City’s metro line No 1 between Ben Thanh Market in District 1 and Suoi Tien Theme Park in Thủ Đức city will start trial operations by December 31 this year.

Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) has become one of the ideal destinations for high-tech investors through the presence of the world's leading multinational technology corporations, such as Intel (US), Nidec (Japan), Sanofi (France), and Datalogic (Italy). 

The municipal authorities in HCMC are going through the digital transformation process to comprehensively perfecting all operations of state agencies here, aiming at establishing a digital government.

HCMC has just passed its toughest challenge so far in the Covid-19 pandemic, thanks to the collaboration and determination of all residents, the municipal authorities, and especially the timely aid of the army with their spirit of self-sacrifice.

The high volume of vehicles flocked to the National Highway No.30 heading to National Highway 1A causing extreme traffic congestion at the ending point of Trung Luong – My Thuan expressway for several hours.

HCMC’s annual Book Street Festival on the lunar New Year opened on January 29 (on the 27th day of the last month).

Ho Chi Minh City has been a green zone for three consecutive weeks without districts in orange zones. The number of new infection cases continued to decline sharply compared to the previous week.

The existing industrial parks (IPs) in HCMC are nearly full as land available for lease is being exhausted, hindering the city’s industrial production expansion, according to the HCMC Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA).

The third Tet Festival honouring Vietnamese food and culture opened for visitors at the HCM City Youth Cultural House on Jan 16.

Ho Chi Minh City’s coronavirus alert level has been decreased from level two to one - meaning transmission of cases is less or reducing.

The city needs a sharp bounce back from the Covid-19 recession from the beginning of the year to return to its normal growth rate.

The Ministry of Health this evening, January 1 confirmed 14,835 fresh Covid cases, with 13 of them imported and 14,822 locally infected in 62 cities and provinces, dipping by 1,654 cases over yesterday.