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Many ready-to-wear brands in HCM City are offering ao dai in different styles and patterns, satisfying young women who want beautiful outfits for Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Chinese have for the first time become the largest group of international visitors to HCM City, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

Ho Chi Minh City is willing to continue taking measures to enhance its friendship and connection with Cambodian localities in order to further develop the Vietnam-Cambodia relations.

Around 25,000 fans holding national flags and wearing red colour T-shirts with yellow star flocked to Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM’s district 10 to join an exchange with Vietnam’s U23 team on February 4.

Ho Chi Minh City is looking for private investors to fund urban development, especially the relocation of 20,000 households living along canals.

An estimated 4.1 million passengers are forecast to go through Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City during the 2018 Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, up 25 percent from the 2017 Tet.

Chinese artist Chen Yi is displaying his watercolour paintings depicting Vietnamese landscapes and people at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

An underpass was opened to traffic on January 31 at the My Thuy intersection in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 to help reduce congestion on routes leading to Cat Lai Port.

The museum of Ho Chi Minh City on February 2 opened a thematic exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive and Uprising in the spring of 1968.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has affirmed that the city will seek all measures and mechanisms to deal with its urban problems and improve living and working conditions for its citizens.

An annual book street festival will be organised in downtown Ho Chi Minh City from February 13-19, or the 28th day of the 12th lunar month to the fourth day of the lunar new year, in celebration of Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen on February 1 received Eric Sidgwick, Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Country Director for Vietnam.

Tran Ngoc Mai of Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh district bought two Tet hampers at a supermarket in district 2 to gift her relatives for Lunar New Year, which falls on February 16 this year.

Ho Chi Minh City hopes the World Bank (WB) will include support for creative city building in the two sides’ MoU of strategic connectivity for 2017 - 2020.