All of HCM City’s 24 districts will have Internet of Things (IoT) broadcasting stations installed this month, making the city the first place in Viet Nam to be fully covered with an IoT network.

The Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) announced on September 21 that it has started providing 5G service and put into operation the infrastructure of Internet of Things (IoT) in Ho Chi Minh City.

After a hot development period, resort real estate is facing challenges because of an oversupply of villas and condotels.

HCM City is working on a logistics development strategy that would make the city a major logistics hub and reduce logistic costs to 16 per cent of Viet Nam's GDP in 2025.

A number of real estate projects with investment of more than VND1 trillion (US$43 million) in the centre of HCM City remain delayed even while the land area for new projects in the city has become increasingly limited.

The HCM City Department of Planning and Architecture, after collecting feedback from local authorities, plans to ask the city People’s Committee to approve the zoning plan for the HCM City Northwestern Urban Area.

The Embassy of Argentina in Vietnam will host Argentina’s Gastronomic Week in HCM City from September 18-22.

Co-working spaces have become the choice of many startups and small and medium sized businesses.

The HCM City Steering Committee 389 under the instruction of National Steering Committee 389 will hold more inspections of fake or smuggled goods such as petrol, chemicals and solvents from now until Tết 

Police in HCM City found dozens of drug users during a surprise raid at a nightclub in District 5.

The North-South railway trains can now travel on the newly opened Binh Loi Railway Bridge, which replaces an old bridge adjacent to the new bridge in HCM City.

The number of people being infected by the hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) has increased sharply in Ho Chi Minh City with a total of 3,088 separate cases being reported during August.

Getting into and out of ports in HCM City has become easier for both foreign vessels and their personnel after the HCM City Border Defence Force made procedures electronic following a new Decision issued by the Prime Minister.

The HCM City administration is in the process of integrating the data of all its departments and agencies to create a common-use shared digital map as a part of the city’s smart city project.

Russian composer Igor Stravinskly's The Rite of Spring ballet and orchestral work will be restaged at the HCM City Opera House on Saturday.

Secretary of the HCM City Party Nguyen Thien Nhan said at a conference held on Tuesday that the city expects to outline a plan to build embankments and improve management of land along rivers and canals by the year-end.

Leading international educators, researchers and practitioners will gather at the Heritage Preservation and Economic Development conference in HCM City on September 10 to share experiences, techniques and technologies

Tenants in need of renting a house, a flat or a room in HCMC now have more options from diverse types of houses and rents in different market segments.

HCMC is being affected, not only by the escalating trade war between China and the United States, but also by the Japan-South Korea trade dispute.

There are insufficient grounds to file criminal charges against former HCMC chairman Le Hoang Quan in the illegal handover of a public plot of land, but the 66-year-old should be subject to strict discipline.