Protests ho chi minh city

To spur students to use buses, the Management and Operation Center for Public Transport wants the city to increase ticket subsidizes this year to VND 3,968 per trip for intra-city travel and VND 4,587 in Can Gio district. The current rates are VND 2,830 and VND 3,537. Tran Chi Trung, the center’s director, said the higher subsidies would also encourage transport operators to buy new buses and improve their services. Students board a school bus in Ho Chi Minh City. Tran Quang Lam, deputy director of the Department of Transport, said the department has suggested that the city should provide interest-free loans for 10 years worth 70 percent of the cost of a bus to operators. The department has worked with the Department of Education and Training to ensure traffic safety in school areas, especially during peak hours. They also instructed transport enterprises to improve their services and increase their number of daily trips so that more students use public … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City to encourage school students to travel by bus

Customers in a supermarket in HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City authorities are working with local businesses to ensure supply of essential goods under the city’s market stabilisation programme for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Under the market stabilisation programme for the year, essential foods include 10 commodity groups. These goods normally account for 25-30 percent of market demand, but in the months prior to and during Tet, the figure rises to 30-40 percent. Tran Duy Dong, director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of Domestic Market, said it would ensure supply of essential goods in the last months of the year and during January. The holiday falls on January 25. Dong, however, pointed out that the supply of essential goods and stabilised prices are “ensured at supermarkets, but prices at traditional markets are not”. The ministry will … [Read more...] about HCM City ensures supply of essential goods for Tet

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City (third from left) Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan visits the Congregation of the Holy Cross Lovers of Thu Thiem in District 2 (Source: https://nld.com.vn) HCM City (VNA) – Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan visited the Congregation of the Holy Cross Lovers of Thu Thiem in District 2 on February 9 on the occasion of the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year (Tet). He hailed the congregation’s involvement in taking care of disadvantaged people, opening vocational training courses, and introducing jobs to locals, which contributed to ensuring the city’s effective implementation of social welfare policies. The party official hoped the congregation will promote such activities to bring better lives for needy people. While visiting the congregation’s nursing home for elderly nuns, the official wished them health and happiness. Superior of the congregation Nguyen Thi Ngoan wished local … [Read more...] about HCM City leader pays pre-Tet visit to Holy Cross Lovers

Vietnamese expatriates in Thailand (Photo: VNA) Bangkok (VNA) – A delegation from Ho Chi Minh City’s Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and local businesses have visited Vietnamese expatriates in Bangkok and Sakon Nakhon and Udon Thani provinces of Thailand. Vice chairman of the committee Tran Duc Hien said the working trip aimed to step up cooperation and call for investment from the Vietnamese community in Thailand into different fields in HCM City. It was also designed to promote HCM City’s image to overseas Vietnamese in general and those in Thailand in particular, he said. Hien described the association of Vietnamese people in Thailand as a reliable address to promote connection and solidarity in the Vietnamese community. The association is also an important forum for overseas Vietnamese to support each other as well as preserve and promote national cultural identities, he said. Particularly, in recent years, the association’s executive board … [Read more...] about HCM City enhances connection with Vietnamese community in Thailand

HCM City officials commemorate war martyrs (Source: http://plo.vn) HCM City (VNA) – A delegation of representatives from the Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front and armed forces of Ho Chi Minh City paid tribute to war heroes and fallen soldiers at the city’s war martyr cemetery on February 9. This is an annual activity of the city’s administration on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year festival to express gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives for national independence and freedom, and made contributions to national development. The delegation, led by Politburo member and Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan, also offered incense and flowers at the city cemetery. Similar commemoration ceremonies are taking place across the country as Tet is approaching, in line with the time-honoured tradition of worshipping ancestors and honouring those who made contributions to the … [Read more...] about HCM City officials commemorate war martyrs