Transport infrastructure works progress slowly, official admits Lack of funds is the main reason for the slow progress of several major transportation works in HCM City, the city People’s Council heard at a session last week.

HCM City takes steps to reduce vehicle emissions

HCM City is carrying out multiple methods and programmes to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions in its aim to create a "clean, green and beautiful" city.

HCM City to develop hi-rises along metro line

HCM City plans to stop construction of high-rise apartment buildings in downtown areas and focus instead on building such residential complexes along the first metro route in the eastern part of the city comprising districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức.

Deputy Prime Minister inspects progress on HCM City’s metro line

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Phạm Bình Minh on Monday led a Government working group to inspect components of HCM City’s first metro line Bến Thành-Suối Tiên.

Finance ministry says public investment funds borrowed from abroad must be disbursed quicker The ministry’s statistics showed that as of Wednesday, VNĐ7.42 trillion (US$320 million) in public investment borrowed from abroad had been disbursed, equivalent to 13.1 per cent of the plan for the full year.

Lands for HCM City metro line 2 to be handed over this month

District authorities in HCM City have been urged to complete land acquisition, compensation payment and resettlement by the end of June for the metro line No 2 between Districts 1 and 12.

City to assess pre-feasibility report for Metro Line No 5 HCM City People’s Committee has instructed departments to assess a pre-feasibility study report for the first phase of the Metro Line No. 5 project.

City to merge three districts to create innovative hub The HCM City Department of Home Affairs has submitted a plan to the People's Committee on the merger of three districts and 19 wards in the eastern side of the city.

HCM City to grant new work permits to foreigners from pandemic-hit countries

HCM City is asking approval to grant new work permits to foreign experts or highly skilled workers arriving from COVID-19-affected countries and territories, especially those in charge of the two metro lines in the city.

HCM City eyes new “city within a city” in its eastern section

HCM City, which has many of the conditions needed to become the first smart city in Việt Nam, is still finalising plans for its ambitious goal to build an innovative ‘city within a city’ in the eastern part of the sprawling metropolis.