VOV.VN - April 1975 is remembered not only for the rapid advance of Vietnamese forces toward Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) during the 1975 Spring Offensive, but also for a far-reaching strategic decision: the liberation of islands in the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on April 29.

Ho Chi Minh City is seeing a sharp surge in foreign direct investment into hi-tech sectors, especially data infrastructure, a cornerstone of the digital economy.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and President To Lam on April 27 urged Ho Chi Minh City to remove bottlenecks and accelerate reforms, shifting toward an innovation-led growth model as the city seeks to sustain its economic momentum.

VOV.VN - General Secretary and President To Lam on April 27 called for continued efforts to improve workers’ living conditions, describing it as a key political task, during a meeting with labourers in Ho Chi Minh City.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam offered incense and flowers in tribute to late senior leaders at their private residences in Ho Chi Minh City on April 26, on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 – 2026).

VOV.VN - The Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, together with a large number of local residents, held the Hung Kings’ Commemoration Day ceremony at the Hung Kings Memorial Temple in Long Binh Ward on April 26, the 10th day of the third lunar month.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has granted investment registration certificates to four high-tech projects in the first quarter of 2026, with total registered capital exceeding US$1.23 billion, focusing on data centres, biomedicine, advanced manufacturing and core digital infrastructure.

Ho Chi Minh City is ready to work closely with Dutch partners to promote substantive cooperation and deepen bilateral ties in an effective and sustainable manner, contributing practically to the Vietnam–Netherlands comprehensive partnership, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Bui Minh Thanh has said.

A special exhibition titled “156 Portraits of Lenin – From the Collection of the V.I. Lenin Memorial in Ulyanovsk” opened at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi on April 22.​

VOV.VN - The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations on April 22 launched a programme connecting Vietnamese partners with foreign non-governmental organisations to review cooperation results and discuss directions to improve the use of non-governmental aid for socio-economic develipment in southern localitie