The Vietnam Cultural Heritage Association and the Korean Cultural Resource Institute co-hosted a press conference on October 25 to introduce the national writing contest and display of President Ho Chi Minh’s saying in Korean calligraphy.

VOV.VN - Flooding lasting for around four days has inundated many roads along Ho Chi Minh City’s various rivers and canals, such as Huynh Tan Phat, Nguyen Thi Thap and Tran Xuan Soan, causing plenty of difficulties for local residents in their daily lives.

The Ho Chi Minh City commercial property market has returned to its growth trajectory from before the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to the retail and services sector as well as increasing number of foreign visitors to the city, experts said.

Ho Chi Minh City’s travel market is forecast to boom later this year and early next year, especially during Christmas and New Year holidays, affording the city a golden chance to attract domestic and foreign visitors.

VOV.VN - A chip design centre (SCDC) and a chip design lab were inaugurated on October 21 at Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Educational geography website World Atlas has named Ho Chi Minh City among nine cities which could be underwater by 2030 due to the continued impact of global warming, including intensifying disasters.

Ho Chi Minh City wishes US businesses to continue investing in the city in areas that suit both the city's interest and the businesses' strengths such as building deep-water ports, transport infrastructure, digital transformation and clean energy.

The Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City has signed an agreement to provide 130 musical instruments worth 75,716 USD to the Can Tho College of Arts and Culture as part of the Japanese Government's non-refundable aid programme for culture at local level.

VOV.VN - Nguyen Ngoc Luong, secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee and president of the Vietnam Youth Federation, has met Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba’s Central Committee and head of its Ideological Department, in Havana.

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Health Department has announced the detection of a second case of monkeypox at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.