VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has set a target of receiving 3.5 million foreign arrivals in 2022 after a bad year for tourism heavily impacted by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered Ho Chi Minh City’s public security forces to ensure social order and safety during Tet, the traditional Lunar New Year festival, to allow residents to enjoy a happy and safe holiday.

Ho Chi Minh City has been chosen as the first locality to carry out studies on the e-transportation development plan, given its huge potential.

As many as 62,000 people, have used the bicycle-sharing service in Ho Chi Minh during the one- month trial period, according to Do Ba Dan, chairman of Tri Nam Group, the investor of the project.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 19 attended a ceremony to open the main road of Trung Luong-My Thuan expressway, a key route linking the Mekong Delta with Ho Chi Minh City and localities in the southern key economic region.

VOV.VN - Three local residents of Ho Chi Minh City have tested positive for the Omicron variant in the community, said doctors of Hospital April 30 under the Ministry of Public Security.

VOV.VN - The export turnover of local enterprises based in Ho Chi Minh City grew by just 1%, with the major export markets experiencing a decline in turnover due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, according to figures given by Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Industry and Trade.

VOV.VN - Developing logistics in order to facilitate export businesses was a recommendation made by businesses at a seminar held on January 18 to discuss solving difficulties faced by import-export enterprises and ways to boost trade facilitation amid COVID-19.

VOV.VN - Thousands of tourists in Ho Chi Minh City have booked tours during the Lunar New Year festival, known locally as Tet, with travel businesses launching diverse tours especially for the occasion since early December.

The Vietnam Seventh-Day Adventist Church convened its fourth general assembly in Ho Chi Minh City on January 17.