Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities are promoting reading culture in the community through a series of new programmes organised this year.
The number of people hospitalised in Ho Chi Minh City with contagious diseases this year has sharply increased compared with the same period a year ago, according to the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre.
HCM City has a surplus of houses for relocated residents, but severely lacks social housing.
VOV.VN - Flowers are indispensable for a Vietnamese family when Tet, Vietnam’s traditional Lunar New Year, arrives. From north to south, there are many villages growing flowers and many flower markets selling them.
More than 15,000 people took part in the Lawrence S. Ting 2019 charity walk in Phu My Hung Urban Area, District 7, HpCMC on January 12.
VOV.VN - At least 25 students have been hospitalized after the metal frame of a stage gave way at a primary school in Binh Chanh district, HCM City, causing the entire stage to collapse on November 20.
A new housing plan to 2020 that will improve city landscapes and quality of life for its residents has been approved by HCM City authorities.
HCM City authorities are seeking more effective measures in the fight against counterfeit products, smuggled goods and trade fraud as e-commerce grows at a fast pace, an official has said.
Ho Chi Minh City aims to raise per capita housing area to 19.8 sq.m in 2020 and 22.8 sq.m in 2025, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
HCM City has earmarked 665ha of land by 2020 to upgrade existing hospitals and build new facilities so that they can cope with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health.
More than a year after it rolled out support policies to help household businesses become enterprises, only 3,950 out of 250,000 have done so, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Taxation has said.
Many lenders have recently increased interest rates and tightened lending for real estate loans due to concerns about bad debts amid land fever in Vietnam.
Four people were hospitalized on October 10 in the wake of an ammonia gas leak that also killed scores of livestock and poultry in the outskirts of Saigon.
HCMC’s second book street on Nguyen Dong Chi Street in Tan Phu Ward, District 7 is scheduled to come into operation from October 20, according to the district authority.
VOV.VN - Firefighters on Tuesday, August 1, knocked down a massive fire at a commercial plastic facility in the district of Binh Chanh in Ho Chi Minh City, according to the Zing online newspaper.
HCMC residents in many areas now live in fear as landslides may occur at any time, depriving them of their homes and assets.
VOV.VN - A homestay of eight bamboo watch-towers in the middle of a lotus lake in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City is seen as an ideal place for visitors to be nestled in the midst of nature.
The HCM City People’s Council’s Cultural and Social Affairs Board has instructed the municipal Department of Education and Training to speed up school construction to meet the increase in the number of students.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has instructed relevant authorities to develop software that will allow the public to obtain land-use plans on their mobile phones as a means to avoid the land “fever” that occurs periodically.
The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment for official development assistance funds to build its metro line No 3A from Ben Thanh Market in District 1 to Binh Chanh district’s Tan Kien commune.
