The Ho Chi Minh City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs will continue to renovate itself to further enhance its operational efficiency, thus optimising OV’s contributions to the construction and development of the city in the new period, heard a conference held in the city on March 9 to launch the committee’s tasks in 2023.

A Vietnamese “banh mi” festival will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from March 30 – April 2, according to the HCM City Tourism Association.

VOV.VN - A range of gold-plated Ao Dai collections have impressed international friends during the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival due to their wonderful design ideas and new materials used for international integration.

VOV.VN - Phan Van Mai, chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, has pledged his best efforts to augment links between local universities and the Association of Francophone Universities (AUF).

Ho Chi Minh City has cut short the procedures for issuing work permits for foreigners and digitalized the application process to make it easy for enterprises to get work permits for their foreign staff.

Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council Nguyen Thi Le on March 8 received Melissa Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the US Department of State, who is on a working visit to the city.

A ceremony took place at the Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7 to sign a contract on the funding of three projects in Vietnam at a total value of US$252,528.

Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Vo Van Hoan has called on Western Australia's businesses to invest in strong fields such as food processing industry, agricultural biotechnology, and education-training in the southern hub.

A roundtable was held in St. Petersburg on March 6, discussing the history of friendship between Russia and Vietnam through meetings of Soviet Union leader Iosif .V. Stalin and President Ho Chi Minh.

The Embassy of Mexico in Vietnam and the Museum of Fine Arts of Ho Chi Minh City on March 7 opened an exhibition that displays paintings by Mexico's well-known painter Diego Rodarte.