The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has reviewed the implementation of its 2020–2025 public parks and green spaces development programme, reporting the expansion of 237.51 hectares of public parks—158% of the target. All three key targets, including public park development, green space expansion, and tree planting and renovation, have been met or exceeded.
Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Duong Ngoc Hai hosted a reception on September 27 for a visiting delegation from Cuba’s Santiago de Cuba province led by Vice Governor Waldis Gonzalez Peinado.
In response to the city's slowing labour productivity growth, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued a labour and employment strategy for the 2023-25 period, with a vision to 2030.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee will implement a programme that provides libraries across the city with up to five million books, both printed and e-books, from February 2024 to March 2025.
Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc hosted a reception for visiting Minister of State in the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Anne-Marie Trevelyan on October 25.
Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan and Mayor of France's Nevers city Denis Thuriot discussed orientations to develop relations between two localities during their meeting on the sidelines of the HCM City Economic Forum 2023 (HEF 2023) on September 15.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has just issued urgent guidelines for a five-step quarantine procedure for arriving passengers amid the emergence of the Omicron variant in Vietnam.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai said the city plans to build one million units of affordable housing for low-income workers.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has made several suggestions for the Ministry of Finance’s decree to support businesses and individuals affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring bank lending rates are no more than 2 percent higher than deposit interest rates.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has introduced a project facilitating the development of its innovative start-up ecosystem during the 2021-2025 period, with a target of supporting 1,000 start-ups.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has planned a panoply of activities to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which falls on February 11-17 this year.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee is calling for investment in the form of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to improve environmental conditions at three closed landfill sites.
A prison sentence of 7 – 8 years has been proposed for Nguyen Huu Tin, former Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, for his wrongdoings in the management and use of state assets.
The National Traffic Safety Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on November 11 held an annual requiem for the victims who lost their life to traffic accidents in Vietnam this year.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee in collaboration with the World Bank Vietnam on September 25 held an international conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in Vietnam and abroad to gather experts’ recommendations for the southern economic hub.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has instructed the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to use technology to monitor enterprises and residential areas to ensure they do not pollute the environment with wastewater.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has approved the construction of three plants to generate electricity from waste using advanced technologies, and work on them will start in September and October, according to the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has expressed his hope that the city and Japan’s Nagano prefecture will have more specific cooperation programmes in the time ahead.
