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

The HCMC government is increasingly resorting to cameras to enhance the enforcement of traffic rules and impose fines on traffic violators, reported Thanh Nien newspaper.

Nguyen Trung Ky from Ho Chi Minh City has spent his life promoting marquetry. The artist has used this foreign art style to create gorgeous pictures about Vietnam.

HCM City is now home to around 37 eroded sites along rivers and canals, including 19 that have been classified as very dangerous, according to the municipal Department of Transport.

Dozens of trees are dying in Van Lang Park in Ho Chi Minh City's District 5.

Students at Le Ngoc Han and Luong The Vinh primary schools won the top prizes in the annual Robothon Contest 2019 for students at primary schools throughout HCM City held on October 20.

Performing pioneering AI research in Vietnamese language for the Vietnamese people is the mission that AILab under the HCM City National University is pursuing.

District-level authorities and departments in HCMC will connect surveillance cameras in the city to a centralized monitoring system, in addition to consulting with contractors on the creation of a smart urban monitoring center.

The HCM City Department of Construction will work with local districts and agencies to create a construction order management team to address the increasing number of violations.

A private movie studio has opened in HCM City’s Binh Chanh District after three years of construction.

Two women died last week in HCM City after undergoing plastic surgery.

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The 2019 HOZO International Music Festival in HCM City would not only be a significant cultural event of the year but also a magnet for tourists, the city Department of Tourism has said.

The Vietnamese port industry needs further investment to keep pace with the country’s rapid economic growth and reduce logistic costs for businesses.

Vo Thanh Sang, deputy director of the HCM City Department of Statistics, explains to Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) Online the concept of dwelling houses in the wake of a recent population and housing survey.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed the Department of Transport to co-ordinate with districts to identify more streets to be used for parking cars.

A variety of solutions to improve recruitment and incentive policies for teachers were proposed by representatives from 24 districts at a recent conference on education universalisation and illiteracy eradication in HCM City.

A list of key individuals found to have committed violations related to the Thu Thiem New Urban Area in HCMC’s District 2 will be drawn up prior to the Lunar New Year, or Tet holiday, in January 2020.

Work on a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant, worth US$215 million, began in the outlying district of Cu Chi on October 16 as the second of its kind in HCMC, allowing the city to address both the waste problem and the demand for energy simultaneously.

The HCMC Department of Transport is mulling over a scheme to control emissions from scooters and motorbikes on a trial basis.