The Vietnamese stock market has reached nine year peak with the strong purchase from foreign sector, who has posted the net purchase of VND3,478 billion (US$153 million) on two bourses in the first quarter.

Investors with insufficient financial ability must be eliminated to call on others for underground parking lots, chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has said.

The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Day 2017 themed “Hello summer” will be held at Le Van Tam Park in District 1 from March 23-26.

Head of the Management Center of the Saigon River Tunnel Le Minh Triet has said that as per the traffic digital map management system, a system of 300 surveillance cameras will be installed in traffic jam-prone spots. 

HCM City Real Estate Association (HoREA) forecast that the needs of affordable housing, low cost commercial, social housing and low cost apartments for lease will approximate 1 million apartments in the next decade as current supply has met only 13%  as of total demand in the city.

Vietnamese photographers won two gold medals at an international photo contest that was held by the Kotrung Uttarpara Photography Association (KUPA) in India, according to the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.

A “Happiness Concert 2017” will be presented to music lovers at Hanoi Opera House on January 11.

Implementing the Government’s instruction, the central province of Quang Binh had destroyed 606 tons of cadmium contaminated fish which businesses bought from fishermen from April to August 30, director of the provincial Department of Health Nguyen Duc Cuong has said.

'Tape Art Collective Berlin', a group of young German artists based in Berlin, will visit Vietnam and introduce, exchange their art performances in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi from December 11 to 18.

A Jazz concert featuring the French quartet Samy Thiébault will take place at Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music on November 25.