After a long lull due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ho Chi Minh City is seeing increasing demand for MICE (meeting, incentive, convention, exhibition) tourism from both Vietnamese and foreign customers.

The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) will perform its ‘Nights of Film Music’ concert at the city’s Opera House on July 16-19.

VOV.VN - Ben Thanh market, one of the largest outlet centres located in Ho Chi Minh City, has become busy once again and is currently receiving around 2,000 arrivals per day, half of them being international tourists.

VOV.VN - A huge number of local people residing in Ho Chi Minh City have flocked to health centres to be vaccinated after the city recorded first COVID-19 infections caused by the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages.

VOV.VN - Blockchain Global Day 2022, the first large-scale event of its kind held in Vietnam, is set to take place in Ho Chi Minh city on July 29 to seek ways to develop the local blockchain industry, according to organisers on July 7.

The New Zealand Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City and the country’s fruit exporters on July 6 presented 500 fruit boxes for charitable organisations for children and women in the city and Hanoi.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has sent a thank you letter to the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) for successfully organising Group I matches of AFC Cup 2022, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City from June 24-30.

Ho Chi Minh City has detected three cases of BA.4 and BA.5, which are more transmissible subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant, via a random screening at a local hospital.

The General Confederation of the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South) convened its 48th General Assembly and the 10th general assembly of bishops in Ho Chi Minh City on July 5.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a meeting with the representative committee of the local Muslim community on July 4 on the occasion of Raya Aidil Adha – a major holiday on the Islamic calendar.