VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to launch a pilot programme on using technology to control and trace the origin of pork in an effort to ensure consumer health and benefits.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has submitted for Government approval a list of priority transportation and sanitation investment projects that will be developed in a Public Private Partnership format between 2016 and 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Transport has called on the administration to build smart parking lots at hospitals to meet the burgeoning demand for parking space at most of them.

VietNamNet Bridge – Cyril Hahn, a DJ and music producer from Switzerland, will host a performance of London’s Calling in HCM City on August 4 as part of his Asian tour. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police of District 3 in HCM City has remanded Tran Quoc Quy, 15, in custody for allegedly robbing a smart phone from a Russian tourist early last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCMC is looking for locations to develop large-scale logistics centers that can incorporate different services and modes of transport to meet growing demand of importers and exporters.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Flood-prevention projects in HCM City will require an additional expenditure of at least VND72 trillion (US$3.22 billion) over the next five years,

 Ho Chi Minh City hopes to receive more investment from Singaporean businesses in transport, urban development and anti-flooding, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.

VietNamNet Bridge - Fine dust, called the ‘quiet human killer’, can spread thousands of kilometers and cause environmental harm. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City won the National Youth Vovinam Championship which closed yesterday (July 14) in Tay Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Stable economic growth has led to increased labour demand in HCM City in the first half of the year, according to HCM City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has said it will step up checks of service establishments that are likely to surreptitiously employ sex workers to combat prostitution.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front’s (VFF) chapter in HCM City and the Lao Front for National Construction’s ( LFNC ) chapter in Vientiane should strengthen links, towards promoting their future development.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many areas described as the city’s ‘flooded hubs’ in the past have become dry while areas which never suffered from flooding in the past have become hotspots for floods.

The property market will continue recovering but experts told an online forum held by Đầu Tư (Investment) newspaper on July 1 that they do not expect breakthroughs in the second half of this year.

HCM City plans to limit vehicles on several downtown streets on weekend evenings in the future, according to the Department of Transport.

 Provinces in the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City introduced 69 key projects to invite investors at a conference on investment, trade and tourism promotion in HCMC this morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Designed with concrete solid, and armored wall, resistant from 500 to 2,000kg bombs, the bunker system is an important part of the Reunification Palace where President Nguyen Van Thieu of the former Saigon regime worked.

VietNamNet Bridge – A new theatre offering traditional shows aimed at visitors will be built in downtown HCM City next month. 

VietNamNet Bridge – The full original version of Carmen will be staged by performers from Viet Nam, France, Thailand and South Korea for two nights in HCM City next week.