Ho Chi Minh City

Accordingly, the public non-business service operates under management, direction and leadership of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport.  The waterway management center is reorganized from the Inland Waterway Management Area and Center for Waterway Registration having been belonged to the HCMC Department of Transport so far.  On behalf of the HCMC People's Committee, the center will organize management, exploitation and maintenance of waterway infrastructure in the city; inspect and grant certificates of technical safety and environmental protection for inland waterway means and perform other tasks assigned by the HCMC People's Committee and Director of the HCMC Department of Transportation. BY QUOC HUNG- Translated by Huyen Huong … [Read more...] about HCMC establishes Waterway Management Center

After the launching ceremony, participants joined activities, including inaugurrating newly-repaired concrete alleys in communes of An Phu Tay, Tan Quy and Da Phuoc; providing environmental protection knowledge and offering notebooks and bicyles to disadvantged students in Tan Quy primary school. The campaign this year will also focus on charity activities in My Thanh Dong and My Thanh Tay communes in Duc Hue district and Tan Phu commune in Duc Hoa district in Long An province. Accordingly, volunteers will participate in programs developing skills and knowledge for preventing child abuse in infants; propaganda and awareness raising on environmental protection; present gifts to Vietnamese Heroic Mothers; provide free health exams and treatments. The annual campaign serves an environment for young people to demonstrate skills and devotion, play their role in voluntary activities for the benefit of the community and to create a spill-out effect among the people … [Read more...] about HCM City launches” Pink Holiday Campaign 2019”

The conference was also attended by chairman of the city People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and standing deputy secretary of the city Party Committee Tran Luu Quang. Stating at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan said that HCMC approved the smart city project sooner than other provinces and cities in the country. The city has determined that management renewal in association with information technology application is a feasible solution to develop the city. Smart city development has faced lots of difficulties because that is a new matter to the city. Estimating implementation of the project for the last past, he said that HCMC has concretized the project while finding ways to organize implementation. Hence, the review conference is very important to estimate works that have been done in the last past and continue determining major works in need of being carried out in the upcoming time. HCMC Party Chief Nguyen Thien Nhan makes a statement at the conference (Photo: SGGP) … [Read more...] about HCMC reviews 18 month implementation of smart city project

Specifically, 4P – Foods center provides a cooking training in 6 months for those aged from 15 to 22. Trainees will have chance to practice in eateries connecting with the center or in the center. Meanwhile, trainees of KOTO Saigon restaurants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City can work to gain practical experience during the program and then they will be recommended to work in restaurants and hotels. Students ought to have poor household certificate issued by local administrations if they want to learn in KOTO. Poor trainees will be trained gratis to become cooks, bakers, and bartenders in Sesame. Courses last in 2 years and trainees will be introduced to work in restaurants and hotels around the city. Those who want to work in the hospitality industry can contact 4P - Foods center at 116A Nguyen Huu Tho Street in Nha Be District; KOTO restaurant at 19A Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street in District 1 or Sesame at 153 Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Street in Binh Thanh District.By HAI THU - Translated … [Read more...] about Gratis cooking training for needy young people, ex-servicemen

At the reception, the city leader thanked and highly appreciated the ambassador’s contributions in boosting the cooperation relationship between Germany and Vietnam including Ho Chi Minh City.  Under his working term, project of Deutsches Haus Ho Chi Minh City (The German House) was finished and put into operation; the two sides effectively cooperated in educational sector and implementing metro line No.2, etc.  Secretary Nhan took pleasure in future lighthouse projects; and he affirmed to solve existent problems in the both sides’ cooperation.  Mr. Christian Berger thanked the city leader for creating favorable condition during his working term. Besides that, he also underlined the above projects have contributed in consolidating the strategical partnership between Germany and Vietnam, and he affirmed to continue strengthening the relationship as well as calling on German enterprises to learn about and invest in new projects in Vietnam in general and in … [Read more...] about Germany, HCMC cooperation brings high effeciency