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Vocalists from the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera perform in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, which will be restaged at the HCM City Opera House on March 31. (Photo courtesy of HBSO) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute will return to Ho Chi Minh City’s Opera House on March 31. The opera is a production of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Vietnam and Norway’s Transposition Programme. The opera, with a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, tells the love story of Prince Tamino and Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. After Pamina is held in captivity under the high priest Sarastro, the Queen of the Night persuades Tamino to rescue his daughter. The Magic Flute premiered in 1791 in Vienna and has been staged by hundreds of theatre companies in the world, such as the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, and Deutsche Oper … [Read more...] about Mozart’s The Magic Flute returns to HCM City Opera House

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) hosts Alex Mourmouras, Chief of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (Photo: VNA)   HCM City (VNA) – Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan expressed his wish that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue support for the city in addressing issues arising from the urban development. While receiving Alex Mourmouras, Chief of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department, on March 16, Nhan said HCM City is facing difficulties in preparing capital resources for urban infrastructure building. Defining the private sector’s engagement in transport infrastructure development as a need, the city wants to get IMF help in organising seminars and studies related to public-private partnership (PPP), he said. Sharing the plan to develop HCM City into a smart city and an economic-financial hub of the country and the region, he suggested the IFM provide … [Read more...] about HCM City hopes for IMF’s further support

At the event (Source: nhandan.org.vn) HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City International Music Festival 2019 (HOZO 2019) kicked off at the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, District 1, HCM City on December 13. According to the municipal Department of Culture and Sports, its organiser, the three-day festival is part of HCM City’s strategic investment plan to develop the city’s cultural industry until 2020. HOZO 2019 offers a precious opportunity for traditional music to merge with modern music, spreading the value of national music and culture to the world. A variety of performances are offered during the festival, from jazz and pop to traditional music. The event sees the presence of artists from France, Belgium, Russia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Greece, Spain, India and Mongolia. Locals will have a chance to enjoy music activities as well as exhibitions and food fare at the festival. Two seminars on world music trends and the … [Read more...] about HCM City International Music Festival opens

  Illustrative image (Source: Internet) HCM City (VNA) – The southern metropolis Ho Chi Minh City will form logistics centres in concentrated production areas or those near seaports to provide various services and operate as ports, container depots and container freight stations. It was part of a project on logistics development in HCM City built by the municipal Department of Industry and Trade, aiming to minimise logistic costs. On March 20, the Vietnam Logistics Association (VLA) and the municipal Department of Industry and Trade, organised a seminar discussing promoting the development of logistics services in the city, drawing representatives from nearly 100 firms in the field. In 2017, the logistics sector of the city reached 91.541 trillion VND (4.03 billion USD), accounting for 8.6 percent of the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) and 14.8 percent of the service sector, according to statistics. Logistics is the second most important industry in the nine … [Read more...] about Logistics centres to be taken shape in HCM City

This year’s HCMC ICT Contest is themed ‘Journey to a Smart City’ and was launched in August 2019. Until October 31, 2019, it received 65 papers, which were carefully evaluated in November for the awards ceremony to be held in December 2019. Many of these papers are from state organizations and in the fields of digital transformation, Internet of Things, smart operation, and practical applications for citizens. According to Deputy Director Le Quoc Cuong, among the 16 submitted papers of 12 enterprises in the first category of ‘Business with Outstanding Software Product’, the contest prioritizes domestic research results, those in the list of the key product program, and ideas to directly contribute to smart city establishment or solutions to the city’s current issues. Certain prominent candidates are the document administration system Doceye, the school management software, the integrated library management software Lac Viet Vebrary, and the … [Read more...] about ICT contest in HCMC honors practical ideas for smart city development