VOV.VN - Vietnam attracted a total of US$23.48 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) during the opening ten months of the year with Singapore leading the way at US$7.51 billion, making up 31.9% of overall investment in the country, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy has issued an indictment prosecuting former transport officials and their accomplices involving in the case of Dinh Ngoc He (alias “Ut troc”), who appropriated over VND725 billion (US$31.3 million) from toll collection on the HCM City-Trung Luong Expressway.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism has launched a second tourism stimulus scheme for the end of the year, offering discounts of up to 50% on hundreds of tour packages.

A recent survey by Savills found that gap of property prices are narrowing between urban and surrounding areas as more facilities are offered to compensate for outer locations.

HCM City is enacting numerous solutions to facilitate FDI into the city by focusing on infrastructure and administrative procedures, as the fund poured into it has been dwindling this year.

The HCM City authority is carrying out solutions to eliminate so-called black spots where traffic accidents occur regularly in the city.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council has passed a resolution to merge HCM City’s eastern districts of 2, 9 and Thu Duc into one administrative unit to create an innovation hub tentatively called Thu Duc City.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City hosted a ceremony on October 13 in order to welcome the arrival of the first set of carriages which will be used on the Metro Line No 1 Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City police detained Pham Thi Doan Trang in HCM City’s District 3 for “spreading propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”.

Movie star, director and producer Ngo Thanh Van of HCM City has launched her latest project on a Vietnamese superhero.