Ho Chi Minh City people on Wednesday night, Christmas Eve, poured into the street and flocked downtown to celebrate Christmas and to capture their best memories with friends and family members. captured the moment of their joys and the time for many others to earn a living during Christmas Eve. A balloon vendor works when a sea of people are seen flocking to the Diamond Plaza shopping center in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, to celebrate Christmas and to capture their best memories with friends and family members on December 24, 2014. Photo: Thoai Tran Two foreign visitors check their Ho Chi Minh City map for the next location they will visit after going to the Notre Dame Cathedral in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, and taking pictures there on December 24, 2014. Photo: Thoai Tran s, is embraced by his mother while standing in a cart carried by his father’s motorbike on Phan Dinh Phung Street in Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on … [Read more...] about Christmas comes to Ho Chi Minh City
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Royal Australian Navy visits Ho Chi Minh City to Mark 35 years of Vietnam-Australia Relationship
On August 25th, the Royal Australian Navy Ship HMAS ANZAC landed at Nha Rong Habor in Ho Chi Minh City, starting a five-month goodwill visit to Southeast Asian nations. Staying in Ho Chi Minh City until August 29th, over 180 Australian sailors will meet and work with the Vietnamese Navy, hold sports competitions with students from the NavyTechnicalCollege, play football with the Vietnamese Swans at RMIT (the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), participate in humanitarian activities and tour HCMC. According to Captain Stuart Mayer, HMAS ANZAC (FFH 150) is a Meko 200 class ship, able to operate in a multi-danger environment, with advanced air search radar, anti-ship missiles, and Mk 41 Mod 5 VLS Sea Sparrows. This is the second time that the HMAS ANZAC ship has visited Ho Chi Minh City since Vietnaminaugurated the My Thuan Bridge in May 2000. After leaving Ho Chi Minh City, the ship will continue its tour to Thailand, Cambodia,Malaysia and Singapore. Presenting … [Read more...] about Royal Australian Navy visits Ho Chi Minh City to Mark 35 years of Vietnam-Australia Relationship
PM tips Ho Chi Minh City as regional industrial, commercial hub
The Prime Minister of Vietnam Monday said he envisions Ho Chi Minh City as a major center for politics, economy, culture, science and technology in Southeast Asia by 2025. According to a government decision, the city authority and relevant agencies were assigned tasks, the most important of which was a zoning project to develop an urban design for Ho Chi Minh City as a national and regional center of industry and services. Under the project, the city's zoning would ensure sustainable development between economic growth and environmental friendliness, along with cultural maintenance and historical-site preservation. Within the zoning plan, security and national defense would also be guaranteed in the city and surrounding provinces. By 2025, the city's administrative boundary would be about 2,095 sq.km, with a population estimated at ten million, including 0.5 million living in suburbs. Besides the main development directions - northeast and south - and the … [Read more...] about PM tips Ho Chi Minh City as regional industrial, commercial hub
City 3D-map introduced to Ho Chi Minh City
Having come back to Vietnam after 19 years living abroad, Tran Duc Thang, a young overseas Vietnamese, has completed work on a 3D map of Ho Chi Minh City, with the desire to make it a common application for both websites and mobile phones. Thang returned to Vietnam for the first time in 2002 in design an ERP management software system for the Vinawood Company, a US company with a branch in Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City. “When my family moved to US, Vietnam was very poor. After 19 years, things have changed a lot. Ho Chi Minh City now looks amazing with all its new, modern infrastructure and buildings. I was able to see that Vietnam, or at least the IT (Information Technology) sector, had a great potential and promise for further development, just like the situation in the USA in the 1990s, so that is why I decided to open a software company in Vietnam”, Thang said. In 2003, Thang founded the Vinahomes Company in Vietnam, while his company in California was doing good and … [Read more...] about City 3D-map introduced to Ho Chi Minh City
EuroCham and Ho Chi Minh City enhance cooperation
Over the past time, EuroCham has launched many activities and programs to promote the city’s economic potential among European enterprises and the city, said Nicolas Audier. Both sides at the working session During the meeting, the two sides also discussed measures in the fields of smart urban construction, green and renewable energy development, transportation and logistics, pharmaceutical trading and auto industry issues. For his part, Nguyen Thanh Phong lauded the effective cooperation between EuroCham and Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular. The city’s leaders will instruct relevant organs to closely cooperate with EuroCham to enhance cooperation programs and create all favorable conditions for European enterprises to invest in Ho Chi Minh City. On the same day, Nguyen Thanh Phong also met with the Vice-President of Operations for Southeast Asia from Hilton Worldwide Group in Vietnam, Paul Hutton. During the working … [Read more...] about EuroCham and Ho Chi Minh City enhance cooperation