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Editor's note: The story below is written by Ton Nu Thi Ninh, president of the Ho Chi Minh City Peace and Development Foundation, in response to Tuoi Tre newspaper's 'Ho Chi Minh City Goes Global' contest. It was edited by Tuoi Tre News for clarity, consistency, and coherence. I myself find the 'Ho Chi Minh City Goes Global' contest exciting and as an open forum, it has been launched quite timely. I have been interested in building a national brand for Vietnam for decades. As the financial and economic hub of the country, Ho Chi Minh City also needs proactive and effective branding. Now may be a good time to begin. Let me share some opinions in this field. First, I’d like to clarify why this city needs branding. It’s because Southeast and East Asia are the world of tough competition, where South Korea not long ago established a nation branding unit under the president’s office, which was in charge of speeding up the Korean Wave campaign, and the city-state of Singapore … [Read more...] about Branding a key to raise Ho Chi Minh City’s global position

The headquarters of a district-level people’s committee in Ho Chi Minh City has stopped operating after a civil servant tested positive for COVID-19. The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control confirmed on Thursday that an officer of the People’s Committee in District 7 had contracted the novel coronavirus. Local authorities have tracked 51 people who came into contact with this case. The headquarters of the District 7 administration has halted all operations, and multiple public servants and officials are temporarily quarantined at the venue. Other staff members who have been working from home are required to fill out health declaration forms and undergo temporary self-quarantine. The district’s medical center has begun collecting samples from all workers at the headquarters for COVID-19 testing. People are banned from entering the headquarters of the People’s Committee in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, June 17, 2021. Photo: Nhat Thinh / Tuoi Tre … [Read more...] about In Ho Chi Minh City, district-level civil servant tests positive for coronavirus

Health authorities recorded almost 150 locally-transmitted coronavirus infections in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, as Vietnam has been struggling with the fourth transmission wave – and the worst so far – since late April. One hundred and forty-nine cases were detected in the community, the municipal Center for Disease Control (HCDC) said in a report. This is the biggest-ever daily case increase the city has reported since the virus first emerged in the country early last year. The patients were related to about 20 transmission chains, with a dozen cases showing no clear source of infection. The southern economic hub has found 1,346 community cases since April 27, when the fourth virus wave broke out in Vietnam. The pathogen is silently spreading in the community so everyone should adhere to social distancing rules, reinstated on May 31, and limit unnecessary interactions, the HCDC said. Those finding that they are at risk of infection should immediately contact local … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City detects nearly 150 domestic coronavirus cases, its largest-ever daily count

A mass coronavirus inoculation drive with over 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses will be carried out in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday at around 1,000 vaccination points, a high-ranking health official has said. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son made the statement on Thursday when he joined the municipal Pasteur Institute to inspect the storage of 836,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine jabs having been allocated by the central government to the city. These doses, developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, are among nearly one million shots of the vaccine the Japanese government donated to Vietnam on Wednesday. This allocation reflected a priority the government and the National Vaccine Steering Board has given to the nine-million-strong city to help it expand the immunization coverage and thereby drive back the increasing COVID-19 spread, which has so far affected the entire southern city, Deputy Minister Son said. The vaccine doses … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City to kick off largest-ever COVID-19 vaccination drive on weekend

The mass coronavirus immunization drive using over 800,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday morning, with around 500 workers of a company in the Saigon Hi-tech Park to be the first to receive inoculation. The launching ceremony for the drive was held at FPT Software Co., Ltd., located in the park in Thu Duc City. It was attended by Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, officials from some ministries and the city, and the Japanese Consul General to Ho Chi Minh City, Watanabe Nobuhiro. The Thu Duc City Medical Center expected to complete the inoculation of about 500 workers of the company within the morning of Saturday by arranging five injection teams having five members each. Before the injection, the workers underwent health check-ups for screening purposes and were given relevant instructions and recommendations, the center reported. The vaccination of these workers marked the start of the city’s largest-ever mass immunization … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City’s largest-ever COVID-19 vaccination drive starts with first doses for 500 workers