Hcm city weather

 Many irrigation projects have been completed to prepare HCM City for the rainy season. Photo courtesy of sggp.org.vn The area between Lo Gom Street and Minh Phung Street in District 6 was once a flooding hotspot that caused inconvenience for local residents. … [Read more...] about HCM City prepares for rainy season

HCM City (VNA) - A conference was held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 13 to discuss the growing market opportunities for the city’s supporting industries. Pham Lien Anh, a senior expert of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), said the IFC has been sponsoring a Vietnam Supplier Development Programme, which is helping businesses improve their capability, move up the value chain and work with more foreign and multinational companies. The programme was launched to keep existing FDI and attract new investors who have modern technology, and provides a comprehensive evaluation of participating businesses' operation and consultancy, she said. Ngo Bao Anh, a representative of Panasonic Vietnam, said the company exports components from Vietnamese suppliers to its factories abroad, adding that it focuses on competitive suppliers who meet corporate responsibility requirements. Jun Choi, country director of Coex, a Korean exhibition organiser, said there are numerous … [Read more...] about Opportunities for HCM City’s supporting industries discussed

Following her works during a three-month stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), based on the archives of an international colonial exhibition chain that took place from 1906 to 1931 in France, Le Giang extracted images of Vietnam colonial period created in French popular culture. In the process of examining these historical documents, she turned her query gaze into the shared past between the two countries. The “Green river, blue mountain” exhibition is an attempt by Le Giang to identify painful obstacles in dealing with a region of conflicting memories, as well as the need to face the myths about Indochina in the current Vietnam context. … [Read more...] about Entertainment events in Hanoi & HCM City on January 20-26

HCM City (VNA) – More than 2,700 workers in industrial zones of Ho Chi Minh City will receive free transport to return home to celebrate the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year (Tet), the country’s largest yearly festival. It is part of a programme launched by the municipal labour federation and trade union of the city’s industrial zones. This year, the programme will arrange nearly 50 coach and 450 train tickets for the workers. The first 38 coaches of the programme bringing nearly 2,000 labourers home departed on January 20, the 26th day of the last lunar year. At a see-off ceremony on the day, Chairwoman of the city labour federation Tran Thi Dieu Thuy voiced her hope that after the holidays, the workers will come back to ensure local businesses’ stable production in the new year, contributing to HCM City’s development. According to the HCM City’s labour federation, trade unions in the city to date have presented over 27,500 transport tickets … [Read more...] about Free tickets offered to HCM City workers

Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, chief of the health department office, said the city had many quality hospitals that could help develop medical tourism, adding the cost of healthcare is low compared to other countries in the region while the quality of doctors and equipment are not inferior. … [Read more...] about Workshop discusses HCM City’s key medical tourism products