VOV.VN - A 30-minute downpour which hit Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of September 14 caused severe flooding throughout several areas, including Thu Duc district.

Some 90,800 new jobs have been created in Ho Chi Minh City so far this year, accounting for 67.3% of the annual plan, the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has reported.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City is aiming to promote dialogues with Japan’s Aichi Prefecture in an effort to enhance the relations between the two localities while simultaneously accelerating co-operation in traditional fields such as tourism and education.

VOV.VN - A drawing contest was launched on September 14 with the aim of celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Cuba.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Planning and Architecture is preparing a plan to turn several industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) into hi-tech industrial parks.

The famous “Nhat Ky Trong Tu” (Prison Diary) written by late President Ho Chi Minh during the early 1940s has been republished in German by two German citizens on the occasion of his 130th birthday (1890-2020).

Vietnamese Ambassador to Ukraine Nguyen Anh Tuan has visited High School 251 named after President Ho Chi Minh in Kiev on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day and the new academic year of 2020-2021.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will gradually increase flights from/to the central city of Da Nang as COVID-19 outbreaks have been brought under control nationwide, said a representative of the airline.

Ho Chi Minh City will continue to speed up the disbursement of public funds and seek to increase budget revenue for the remaining months of the year, the chairman of the municipal People’s Committee has said.

HCM City and Busan city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) are to establish a virtual inter-sector working group to bolster bilateral cooperation.