VOV.VN - The Muslim community in Ho Chi Minh City on October 8 jubilantly held the Maulid Festival to celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad.

For the first time, people and tourists will have opportunities to fly directly from Vietnam to Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat state in western India, by two routes of Vietjet from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with four return flights per route on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City desires to ramp up cooperation with Cuba as a contribution to fostering the traditional ties between Vietnam and the Caribbean nation.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City desires to promote cooperation in various fields with Cambodia, including tourism, education - training, and people-to-people exchanges.

The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) and the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam (UNDP) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation on September 7.

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will resume flights connecting the central city of Da Nang with Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur and Thailand’s Bangkok from September 1 and September 15, respectively, the carrier has announced.

VOV.VN - Phan Van Mai, chairman of the People Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and vice secretary of the municipal Party Committee, hosted a reception on August 9 for Ruslan Varankov, the new consul general of Belarus in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam must move forward unless it wants to be saddled with the status of the “world’s factory”, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on July 28.

A get-together was held by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) on July 25 to mark the 69th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack in Cuba (July 26).

VOV.VN - A delegation of the Ho Chi Minh City administration led by its chairman Phan Van Mai paid a working visit to the NASDAQ Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on July 19 (local time).