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Ho Chi Minh City  They are hoping to find the shortest way to apply AI on a large scale and need a model that most suits the city's current infrastructure. The model should also be able to create a connection among the four factors for development, which are the city’s administration, businesses, scientists who study the application of AI, and investors in AI projects, the city's Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong said at a recent conference. "The success of studying and applying AI will depend much on this connection, especially considering the fact that small, medium and even micro enterprises make up 98 percent of businesses in the city," he said. The city also needs to map out plans to train staff for AI development and application and is calling for investments in such programs. "The human resource that is not yet ready to catch up with the Industry 4.0 era is one of the weak points that will hold back the research and application of AI. "The application of AI into … [Read more...] about HCMC keen on using artificial intelligence to advance urban development

In the report to MONRE about the environmental Protection project in Dong Nai river basin in HCMC until 2020, HCMC People’s Committee revealed the construction of three wastewater treatment plants. They include Binh Hung plant at the first stage with the capacity of 143,000 cubic meter a day, Binh Hung Hoa plant with the capacity of 30,000 cubic meter a day and Tham Luong- Ben Cat plant in the trial run with the capacity of 131,000 cubic meter a day. Together with the waste water of approximately 200,000 cubic meter a day from daily activities in new residential areas, commercial centers and apartments, the total wastewater discharged into the environment is 370,000 cubic meter a day. It is scheduled that by 2020, Tham Luong – Ben Cat plant will be officially operational and the city will upgrade Binh Hung plant with the capacity of 469,000 cubic meter a day and Nhieu Loc- Thi Nghe plant with 480.000 cubic meter a day. Regarding industrial wastewater, HCMC has … [Read more...] about HCMC to implement environment protection solution for Dong Nai river basin

The plan will be submitted to the government for approval before pilot implementation. Before, the Centre for Natural Resources and Environment Monitoring October 9 announced emission from motorcycles is one of three major causes of air pollution in HCMC. Therefore, the Transport Department said that it is high time to monitor hazardous emission from vehicles to protect city dwellers’ health. Presently, the number of vehicles is on the steep rise in HCMC with nearly 7.9 million vehicles including over 730,000 cars and 7.15 million motorbikes. Motorcycle exhaust fume makes up 94 percent of hydrocarbons (HC), 57 percent of nitrogen oxides (NOx), 87 percent of carbon monoxide (CO and 33 percent of PM1O of total emission from all vehicles in the city. By THUC QUYEN - Translated by DAN THUY Tags: HCMC control of emissions mobile waste sources hydrocarbons carbon monoxide PM1O … [Read more...] about HCMC plans to control motorbike exhaust fume

The reason is that the infrastructure of export processing zones and industrial parks is not able to meet the current investment situation of enterprises in general and foreign-invested enterprises in particular. According to Mr. Dao Xuan Duc, deputy head of the Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA), the city currently has three export processing zones and 16 industrial parks with total area of 4,532 hectares. Of which, 17 export processing and industrial zones with more than 1,200 projects having been put into operation attracted more than 290,000 workers. By the end of last year, accumulated export turnover of export processing and industrial zones reached $66.41 billion, accounting for 15 percent of the city’s export turnover. Goods produced in export processing and industrial zones were exported to more than 45 countries in the world. Of which, Japan’s market accounted for 42.11 percent, followed by the EU market with 16.27 percent … [Read more...] about HCMC restructures export processing, industrial zones to attract investment

Following the PM’s decision, the municipal People’s Committee has assigned the Department of Information and Communications to work with other competent agencies to hold Vietnam Book Day annually. Thanks to related agencies’ efforts in building the book reading movement, the city has achieved much success. Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications said that according to the department’s plan, people’s committees in 24 districts have organized annual book reading-relating activities with various themes for children, seminars, story-telling exchanges and book collection for destitute kids. Head of the Authority of Publication, Printing and Distribution under the Ministry of Information and Communications Chu Van Hoa said that HCMC has been leading the book reading movement because the movement has spread to other neighboring cities and provinces proving that HCMC is really the country’s economic and cultural hub. He added … [Read more...] about HCMC leads in reading movement