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A map showing the route of the new HCM City - Mộc Bài Expressway between HCM City and Tây Ninh Province. — Photo courtesy of Ministry of Transport HCM CITY — HCM City needs VNĐ17.3 trillion (US$754.5 million) to implement the HCM City - Mộc Bài Expressway project and two projects on dredging and upgrading Hy Vọng Channel and Xuyên Tâm Canal for the 2021-25 period. The city's medium-term public investment plan for the 2021-2025 period is based on the level of capital allocation set by the National Assembly. However, the registered capital is only enough for transitional projects in the 2016-20 period, and not enough to carry out new projects in the 2021-25 period. The city has been giving the highest priority to use its budget for COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control work, making it harder to arrange capital for public invested projects. As a result, the municipal People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment for approval from the Prime …

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Hundreds of students in HCM City have expressed concern they may have been cheated by an English training centre which has disappeared after collecting their tuition fees. In a letter sent to the Tien Phong Newspaper on September 21, Nguyen Thi Ha in Go Vap District said that she paid over VND 16 million (USD 696) for two English courses for her children at the SAS English Centre on Tran Thi Nghi Street in March 2021. However, her two children had only taken some classes before the centre suspended operation due to the recent Covid-19 outbreak. A branch of the SAS English Training Centre in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City “The centre has not made any announcement since then," she said. "I've tried to contact them via phone, emails, and social websites to ask if they are going to launch online classes but failed. Minh Hieu, 22, said that he and a friend paid over VND 25 million (USD 1,087) for six courses in March 2021. "We finished our first …

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HCM City’s museums are offering online displays and tours as part of their effort to develop business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo courtesy of HCM City Museum of Vietnamese History By Thu Anh HCM CITY  HCM City’s museums are offering online exhibitions and virtual tours as part of their effort to develop business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Áo Dài Museum in Thủ Đức City has launched a special exhibition programme called Á o dài (Vietnamese traditional dress) on its fanpage. The programme offers online displays featuring long robe designs in different periods dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Special collections of long robes belonging to political, cultural and artistic stalwarts like war heroine Nguyễn Thị Định, the first woman major general in the Việt Nam People's Army, former deputy president Nguyễn Thị Bình, and Trịnh Thị Hoà, former director of the HCM City History Museum, are included. The programme’s highlighted display features …

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A severely ill COVID patient is treated at the COVID Resuscitation Hospital in Thủ Đức City. Photo courtesy of the hospital HCM CITY — The HCM City Department of Health plans to gradually reduce the number of concentrated isolation areas and medical facilities for COVID treatment, and resume normal operation of hospitals which were previously designated to only treat COVID patients. According to the department, a number of hospitals are now ready to resume normal operation as the pandemic situation has improved. The hospitals will be thoroughly disinfected after COVID treatment ends. Since September 22, three general hospitals in District 7 and Cần Giờ and Củ Chi districts, considered “safe areas”, have resumed normal operation. “The hospitals no longer treat COVID-19 patients, but they maintain 10-20 beds for isolation purposes in case of suspected COVID cases, and have an oxygen system to promptly resuscitate critically ill patients who will be transferred to a …

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Customers shop at Co.opmart Củ Chi supermarket in HCM CIty's Củ Chi District. Many businesses in HCM City’s ‘green zones’ that have been allowed to reopen since September 15 have adopted flexible models to meet the market’s new requirements. — Photo courtesy of Saigon Co.op HCM CITY — Many businesses in HCM City’s ‘green zones’ (safe zones) that have been allowed to reopen since September 15 have adopted flexible models to meet the market’s new requirements. Tùng Minh, owner of a store that sells imported fruits in District 7, said the first thing he did on reopening his store was to start investing in online infrastructure and building a network of potential online customers. The store has started to receive orders via phone and website, he said. It connects closely with loyal customers, and through them introduces and markets its products to their relatives, friends and neighbours, he said. It also digitises product images, prices and origins to enable people to …

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At the event (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on September 24 held a ceremony to receive medical supplies and equipment worth 352,000 USD donated by the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (AmCham Vietnam) and its member firms to support hospitals in the city in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The supplies and equipment include four ventilators, 55 electric syringe pumps and 10 portable ventilators . Speaking at the event, chairwoman of the committee To Thi Bich Chau thanked Amcham Vietnam for its donation and shared her sympathy with the enterprises as they have overcome difficulties in production and business due to the pandemic. She said their donation will be sent to front-liners promptly, helping to improve the efficiency of treatment for COVID-19 patients and drive back the pandemic soon. Chau expected that the enterprises would continue supporting and accompanying Vietnam's and HCM City's …

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MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Online Premiere: Split Until Oct 23, 11 pm From Goethe Institut: When confined to a small space, with no contact with the outside, encounters are not any more, everything just takes place in a space so familiar that it seems boring, will we cut off all associations? Or is it the time to connect to oneself – something that we occasionally forget? Each time like that, people “split” themselves. “Split” is the breaking in piece, angled deeply inwardly. When outer space is limited, people discover emotions hidden deep within themselves, observe themselves under different beings, both separate and mixed, sometimes very confusing. “splitting” without separation, split to open, for stopping but clarifying, for reflection and for connecting. __________________________________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION Ho Chi Minh City Fine Art Association hosts first ever online exhibition …

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HCM City to receive 56,555 tonnes of rice from national reserve The General Department of State Reserves under the Ministry of Finance has issued a document on the provision of over 56,555 tonnes of rice from national reserve to Ho Chi Minh City to support pandemic-hit residents. The department has signed contracts with the Phat Tai Company Limited in Dong Thap province, Thuan Minh Import-Export JSC in HCM City and Trung An High-Tech Agriculture JSC in Can Tho city to buy enough rice to supply to HCM City. The HCM City State Reserve Department is tasked to work with local authorities to distribute fee rice to people in need. Earlier, the General Department has given 14,500 tonnes of rice to the city. The distribution was completed on September 9./. Local students win ASEAN Youth Social Journalism Contest 2021 Vietnamese students Nguyen Nhat Vi and Pham Quang Vinh, both of whom are studying at RMIT University, have won third prize at the ASEAN Youth Social …

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88 per cent of Vietnamese households negatively affected by COVID-19 HCM City businesses eager to resume, but regulation, worker availability worries linger 8,537 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Việt Nam on Friday Việt Nam successfully produces Sputnik V vaccine HCM City to shut some COVID field hospitals as patient numbers dwindle amid home treatment 58-year-old ambulance driver Đặng Tri Thông volunteers to take hundreds of COVID-19 patients in HCM City and Quảng Bình Province. — Photo courtesy of Đặng Tri Thông Khánh Dương HCM CITY — In early September, Đặng Tri Thông, a 58-year-old ambulance driver in the central province of Quảng Bình, shared on his Facebook page: “Myself and my son have officially become members of a team in charge of transporting COVID-19 suspected cases and patients. Anyone in need of help can call me.” That is the first task that Thông and his 24-year-old son took on when they returned to their hometown after a month …

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Vietnam confirmed an additional 10,011 Covid-19 infections on Sunday and 11,477 patients were discharged from hospital following their recovery the same day, according to the Ministry of Health. According to the ministry's report, all of the new patients are locally-transmitted cases confirmed in 35 localities including HCM City (5,121), Binh Duong (3,332), Dong Nai (746), Long An (171), Kien Giang (99), and An Giang (81). The new infection number showed an increase of 329 cases compared to yesterday's figure. There were 5,313 infections found in the community. As of Sunday evening, 752,185 infections have been reported since the new outbreak occurred in the country in late April, with some southern localities recording high infections such as HCM City (371,660), Binh Duong (200,196), Dong Nai (45,667), Long An (31,789), and Tien Giang (13,787). The outbreak has so far spread to 62 out of 63 cities and provinces nationwide. With these new infection cases, the …

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