On the first day of New Year 2013, thousands of international visitors greeted Vietnam's tourism and enjoy many programs awarded to welcome international units by HCMC tourism sector.

VietNamNet Bridge - Canals inherently have a drainage function, but in HCM City, this has become one of the potentials and "resident" of dozens of diseases.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Staff recruitment in HCM City dropped by 2.9 per cent this year compared to 2011, according to the city's Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s annual countdown party to welcome the New Year will be held on Nguyen Hue Street in district 1 on December 30 and 31.

Travel agencies have complained about foreign tourists being robbed, disturbed and charged high taxi fares, and the travel security report also shows that hundreds of robberies targeting foreign visitors have been recorded in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - More than a month after the death of her husband, Ms. Dang Thi Lien, dressed in mourning clothes and went to the HCM City Department of Health to ask for clarification of her husband’s death on December 26.

VietNamNet Bridge - In order to increase revenues, reduce budget subsidies, from January 1, 2013, the bus fare in Ho Chi Minh City will increase by VND1,000 dong per turn.

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City heads the country in economic growth, but the quality of life of its residents has not developed correspondingly, participants said at a seminar held on Thursday.

Senior managers of Ethanol Plant absconding, leave huge debts;  Mekong Delta flower business blooms; Slight December CPI increase in major cities; Big banks and groups to be audited next year; New ATM fees to burden cardholders

VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-seven speakers, over 250 enterprises and more than 200 high-level representatives of the Government and business leaders have signed up to attend the CEO World Forum 2013.

VietNamNet Bridge - In downtown Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, some central roads were in traffic congestion on Christmas Eve. Many people had to walk for kilometers to major churches.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities have set up 34 mobile police teams to patrol streets in an effort to fight a significant spurt in theft and robberies that has worried residents.

Unidentified flying objects UFOs, the mystery for the human being so far, were believed to turn up in Vietnam many times.

VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of December 21, cracks appeared on the floor of Thu Thiem tunnel across the Saigon River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Omiazakov Dias of Kazakhstan's Astana team won the fourth stage of the ADC Tour of Viet Nam yesterday, Dec 20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City administration should ban construction of bumulti-storeyed buildings in the city's core area to protect its architectural heritage, architects told a seminar late last week.

Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

The Department of Education and Training, the Bureau of Population and Family Planning and the Department of Health in HCM City will jointly organize a sex education program in 16 junior high schools in Ho Chi Minh City

VietNamNet Bridge – The wedding of 120 couples took place this morning, December 12, in HCM City. It has just recognized as a national record by the Vietnam Record Book Center (Vietkings).