VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will this month stage the ballet Saga of a Romance for its free monthly show to educate the younger generation about music and dance.

VietNamNet Bridge – Many residential areas in districts 1,3,5,6 and Binh Thanh are expected to implement waste classification at each household on a trial basis from this month with funding from State budget.

 VietNamNet Bridge – High demand for farm produce and the sheer variety of ways in which it is brought into HCM City from other localities makes quality control a very difficult task, officials say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to speed up the task of moving production establishments causing pollution out of residential areas.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Veteran theatre directors in HCM City this month are busy preparing for the upcoming Christmas and New Year holiday by offering new shows.

VietNamNet Bridge – A pho restaurant in HCM City has launched an eating contest. If participants can finish a giant bowl of soup in one hour, they win VND1,000,000 (US$48).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Renowned cai luong (reformed opera) artist Hong Nga plans to organise a live show to mark her 70th birthday on January 17 in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Flower and Book Street Festival 2015 will open in HCM City from February 16 to 22 along Ham Nghi Street instead of Nguyen Hue Street due to construction of the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro line No 1

 VietNamNet Bridge – It is 9 a.m. and the middle-aged Ngoc Quy rides his motorcycle around a stretch of Ba Thang Hai Street in District 11 of HCMC. He wears casual jeans, boots and a cowboy hat,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Trading on Nguyen Hue Boulevard in HCMC’s District 1 will be back to normal soon as the city’s authorities have asked Urban Traffic Management Unit No. 1 to complete the street’s upgrade project

 VietNamNet Bridge – Local tourism sector is actively preparing some promotion programs aiming at the Indian market with an aim to achieve a ten-fold increase in arrivals from this market in the next few years

 VietNamNet Bridge – Comic Con, one of the largest comic book, anime, manga, cosplay, and gaming events in the US, will come to HCM City next month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Spanish government has pledged to provide 3.4 million EUR for Ho Chi Minh City to carry out a pre-feasibility study for Metro line No.5 which will link Saigon bridge to new Can Giuoc coach station.

VietNamNet Bridge – The city government will organize many year-end events to attract tourists such as the Shopping and Tourism Program, Consumption Promotion Fair, Culinary Festival and so on.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After a year of taking the country's music by storm, four pop bands in Ha Noi and HCM City are becoming new music icons for many young people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The city could generate US$1.4 billion by investing in making its transportation system more resilient in extreme weather conditions, a study released by Siemens and Arup said last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dirty toilets and bathrooms gave 40 per cent of HCM City students diarrhea, according to UNICEF Viet Nam.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities’ flood control plans have become outdated as existing facilities cannot handle the increased flooding.

 VietNamNet Bridge – This fireworks and light show celebrating New Year 2015 will receive investments of up to of $1.5 million from local businesses, according to the HCM City People's Committee.

VietNamNet Bridge – Under the mild sunlight of October, a seasoned man seats in a small patch next to Saigon Bookstore on Le Loi Street’s pavement in downtown HCMC and carefully engraves a long sentence of tiny words.