VietNamNet Bridge – Subdividing land into housing-sized pieces to sell off is rampant in HCM City, especially in suburban areas, but according to analysts and officials, it is a violation of the law and undermines urban planning.

VietNamNet Bridge - Environment data from automatic monitoring equipment shows that Hanoi has bad air quality. The machines have sometimes discovered suspended mercury in the air.

Monitoring data shows that the saltwater has intruded deep into the inner HCM City since early April. The salinity in Nha Be, Sai Gon rivers and several canals in Binh Chanh and other districts is above last year’s levels.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though demand has increased as foreigners are now allowed to own houses in Vietnam, real estate developers dare not raise selling prices.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Experts have proposed using the Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal as a reservoir to regulate water as urban floods have become more serious during the rainy season in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - HCMC, the only locality in Vietnam that has a made-by-Vietnam chip’ dream with its IC industry development program, is meeting big challenges in commercializing products.

The HCM City authorities have given the nod to the Saigon Water Supply Company (Sawaco) plan to build underground water reservoirs in some parks in the city which would help ensure water supply after earthquakes and other natural calamities.

VietNamNet Bridge - International investment funds are preparing billions of dollars to hunt for land in Thu Thiem area in HCM City to develop long-term real estate projects. The average land price is $3,000 per square meter.

VietNamNet Bridge - Two students have invented a house which protects people in areas near the Khanh Son dumping ground in Da Nang City from pollution.

Since the development of new schools cannot catch up with the population increase, HCM City is seriously lacking schools. Because of this, parents have to enroll their children in privately run day-boarding classes.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Youth Federation in HCM City, the Viet Nam National Students Association in the City and the HCM City Young Businesspeople Association launched a business startup programme for youth,

VietNamNet Bridge – Illegal parking areas and street-side vendors are encroaching on pavement and roads in HCM City, causing traffic congestion, particularly on narrow streets.  

VietNamNet Bridge – Despite HCM City’s dense network of rivers and canals, waterway tourism has not matched its potential, thus failing the city’s expectations it would become the main tourism product by 2020. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The HCM City Anti-flood Program’s Management Board plans to buy 63 specific vehicles to pump water in floods, but scientists say the solution is ‘anti-scientific’ and not feasible. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The pollution situation in HCM City has no effective warning system that would allow the city authorities to take timely action.

Twenty areas in HCM City have seen rapid subsidence, while the other 40 sites are subsiding at a slower rate, according to the HCM City Department of Natural Resources and the Environment.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City, which plans to relocate people living in slums along canals, will move them to places nearby in order not to dislocate their lives.

 Vietnam’s pharmaceutical market attractive to Indian enterprises, HCM City augments measures to attract FDI, HCM City, US-based conglomerate eye partnership, Trade connectivity enhanced among Japan, Vietnam, ASEAN enterprises

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will soon implement strong solutions to prevent and fight bribery, delegates have heard at a conference held in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – No Turning Back, a hardcore band from the Netherlands, will come to HCM City on March 20, ending its tour around Asia from March 3-20 to promote their latest album Never Give Up.