The “Ho Chi Minh City – development and integration” festival is due to take place in the southern metropolis from November 29 to December 1 with various activities, a municipal official has said.
The Ho Chi Minh City Economic Forum 2019, scheduled to open on October 18, will seek solutions to turn the southern metropolis into a financial centre of the region and the world, heard a press conference on October 8.
International visitors who came to Ho Chi Minh City for health care make up 40 percent of the total number of foreign tourists to Vietnam for this purpose.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Phong and German Consul General to the city Josefine Wallat discussed ways to foster multifaceted cooperation between the Vietnamese southern metropolis and the European country during their meeting on September 30.
Ho Chi Minh City will roll out a programme on building an ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) application for 2019-2020, heard a press conference in the Vietnamese southern metropolis on September 17.
Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, and visiting Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz discussed ways to promote investment ties between the Vietnamese southern metropolis and Cuba, during their meeting on September 13.
Ho Chi Minh City hopes that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will continue to help the city deal with challenges in urban transport, infrastructure construction and waste treatment, thus ensuring sustainable development, a local official said on August 12.
The office market in Ho Chi Minh City continued stable growth in the first half of this year, with some increases in rental prices and areas, according to major property consultant firms.
Ho Chi Minh City wishes to learn from the Dutch city of Eindhoven’s experience in smart city development and cooperation models between the state and businesses, schools, and research institutes, especially in smart city building and operation, an official from HCM City said on May 21, as part of his visit to the Netherlands.
Ho Chi Minh City’s firms have invested over 30.11 trillion VND (1.29 billion USD) in production facilities, factories and farms in southern localities over the past seven years, the municipal People’s Committee has said.
The Hansae Yes24 Foundation and the Hansae Vietnam Co Ltd, presented 10,000 books to primary school students in Ho Chi Minh City at a ceremony on April 18.
Many foreign investors, including the UK’s Savills Estate Agents, have regarded Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City in particular as a promising market in the property sector, Savills Group CEO Mark Ridley has said.
Ho Chi Minh City recorded 3,316 scarlet fever cases suspected of infecting measles in the first three months of 2019, according to the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre.
A perfect public-private partnership (PPP) model should harmonise the interests of State agencies, investors, beneficiaries and those affected by the project, an official of Ho Chi Minh City has said.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam said HCM City and Japan’s Fukuoka prefecture can cooperate successfully as the two localities share a lot of similarities.
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