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The three-day Xposition ‘O’ contemporary dance fiesta (XPO) is introducing contemporary dance performances to local audiences at the Soul Lie Project Complex in HCM City.

Instead of investing millions of dollars to build properties in HCM City’s inner districts, real estate developers are renting properties and furnishing apartments and putting them up as mid-priced serviced apartments for rent.

“For a place with so much history – decades of wartime and occupation have left their scars – Ho Chi Minh City feels surprisingly new,” the New York Times Style Magazine starts in a recently-published story about the “vibrant, stylish, youthful” city.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have the largest numbers of key energy consumers, with 247 in the capital and 311 in the southern metropolis.

The southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City posted a month-on-month rise of 0.38 percent in the consumer price index (CPI) in October, the municipal Statistics Office reported.

VIETWATER 2019, Vietnam’s leading water supply, sanitation, water resources and purification exhibition, will return to Ho Chi Minh City in November, announced organisers on October 30.

Food and beverage and fashion and lifestyle will continue to drive demand in Ho Chi Minh City’s retail property market, according to real estate consultancies.

Ho Chi Minh City will need over 83 trillion VND (over 3.57 billion USD) of investment capital to develop transport infrastructure in the city during 2021-2025, the city’s authorities said.

A charity concert took place in Ho Chi Minh City on October 24, raising over 45 billion VND (1.93 million USD) for the municipal “Fund for the poor”.

Hundreds of people took part in a firefighting drill at Vietnam’s highest building, Landmark 81, in Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh City, on October 24.

Representatives from the world’s leading IT corporations are sharing advanced technology trends at the Vietnam IT Conference 2019, which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on October 24.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport is taking steps to ensure traffic safety and order in the remaining months of the year.

The Korea Federation of SMEs (KBIZ) held a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on October 22 to discuss measures to develop export and import markets in Southeast Asia.

Ho Chi Minh City will host an international music festival from December 13-15 on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in District 1 in an effort to develop its cultural industry.