VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh Minh City authorities are set to expand COVID-19 testing for passengers on repatriation flights, patients in hospitals who are suffering from serious illnesses, in addition to workers and experts in industrial and processing zones, in the build up to the Lunar New Year holiday, known locally as Tet.

The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) on December 1 hosted a get-together to mark the 102nd National Day of Romania (December 1, 1918 – 2020).

VOV.VN - Health workers in Ho Chi Minh City have identified and quarantined a total of 235 people who either came into direct or indirect contact with two positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in the southern city.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Ho Chi Minh City rose by 0.06% in November from the previous month, raising the total CPI rise in the 11-month period to 2.94%, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Ho Chi Minh City attaches importance to and pledges to further foster cooperation with Germany in the time to come, said a local official.

VOV.VN - As many as 120 tour operators have joined hands to develop tourism services in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and five provinces in the Central Key Economic Region.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong, on November 24, presented the city’s insignia to outgoing Republic of Korea (RoK) Consul General Lim Jae Hoon, who came to bid his farewell.

VOV.VN - A workshop to mark 60 years of Vietnam-Cuba diplomacy was held at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics in Hanoi on November 25, to strengthen solidarity and friendship between both sides.

The third forum of young Vietnamese intellectuals across the globe, themed Vietnam in 2045, took place on November 21 with the participation of 206 people under 35 in Vietnam and overseas.

VOV.VN - How to enhance tourism development connectivity between Ho Chi Minh City and northeastern provinces during the 2020- 2025 period took centre stage at a conference which transpired in the northern province of Quang Ninh's Ha Long City on November 20 in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.