To make HCM City more attractive to local and foreign travellers, city authorities have decided to build the Sai Gon Cultural and Tourism Village.

HCM City plans to open private lanes for buses on two major streets to speed up operating time and attract bus riders, among other plans to ease traffic congestion, 

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The chairman of the HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the Department of Transport to replace unqualified investors of underground parking lot projects that have been delayed for more than 10 years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City People’s Committee has developed a plan to improve the quality of city leaders and officials, adding more youth to the management board between 2016 and 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City plans to open special street-food areas in District 1 as part of a pilot programme to move vendors to designated pavements, among other plans to improve the liveability of the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – New York, famously known as the “city that never sleeps,” will soon be joined by HCM City, which is aspiring to that status in an effort to step up its tourism game.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam’s first natural history museum will be built in HCM City on an area of 23.9 hectares inside the Historical and Cultural Park in District 9.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City wants to expand the use of online public services to simplify administrative procedures and reduce their cost for the public, vice chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Center for Science and Technology Development for Youth in HCM City has launched a VND10 billion (US$440,000) programme to support young researchers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Authorities in HCM City who wielded a heavy stick against street vendors and pavement encroachments recently are now offering the carrot of empathy.

Construction on the Bung Bridge project in HCM City’s Tan Phu and Binh Tan districts will begin in April, according to the city’s Urban Traffic Management Zone No.1.

HCM City plans to become a smart city, and the task requires concerted efforts by the administration and information technology community, a top city leader has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four men, suspected to be part of a larger crime ring, were caught red-handed by the criminal police siphoning gasoline from a tanker in HCM City on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge –  A pregnant woman in HCM City was saved from uterine rupture while in labour by doctors from four hospitals thanks to an inter-hospital alert system.

 German pianist Boris Schönleber will perform best pieces by the German composers Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann and Austrian Hugo Wolf at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on March 12.

 Ho Chi Minh City and San Francisco city of the US will continue promoting their close relationship in an intensive and effective manner, making it an example for cooperation between the Vietnamese and US localities.

 A concert introducing Italian songs will take place at HCMC Conservatory of Music on March 19.

HCM City will focus on reducing pollution in rural districts and communes, local authorities said at a conference held in the city on Thursday to review the National Target Programme for New Rural Areas 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City is one of several localities in the country that have successfully worked with central and municipal judicial agencies in the fight against corruption, a senior official has said.