Ho chi minh city weather

A novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) task force under Ho Chi Minh City’s Road and Rail Police division (PC08) was patrolling near an exit of Tan Son Nhat’s domestic terminal on Wednesday afternoon when they pulled over a pickup truck carrying several unmarked boxes containing thousands of face masks. … [Read more...] about 10,000 face masks seized near Ho Chi Minh City airport

Meanwhile, Associate Professor Nguyen Minh Hoa, former dean of urban sciences at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, says that the plan will be impossible to enforce and costly to implement on the enormous number of motorcycles in Ho Chi Minh City. … [Read more...] about ​​Ho Chi Minh City proposes plan to control motorbike exhaust in 2018

To address the issue, BTH has collaborated with the city’s Red Cross Society and the Blood Donation Center to carry out mobile blood donation activities as planned, especially on the National Blood Donation day on April 7. … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City sounds alarm over blood shortage amid pandemic

The otherwise crowded and busy Tan Son Nhat airport in HCM City is quiet admist the COVID-19 outbreak. From April 9, all passengers arriving at the airport and at the train station and bus stations have to get tested for the disease on arrival.  … [Read more...] about All visitors to HCM City to be tested for COVID-19

Hanoi (VNA) – The HCM City Department of Tourism has estimated that the city’s tourism industry suffered losses worth close to 10 trillion VND (426.2 million USD) in the first quarter of this year due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The department’s data shows that the country’s southern metropolis welcomed just 1.3 million visitors during the first three months of the year, down 42.26 percent from a year earlier. In March alone, tourist arrivals nosedived 84.23 percent year-on-year to about 117,000. The department plans to further strengthen preventive measures against the widely-spreading disease to ensure safety for travellers in the second quarter. It is working with the municipal Department of Science and Technology to explore how to develop community-based tourism in urban cultural spaces in the near future. It also expects to launch a series of tourism stimulus programmes after the pandemic is over to help the industry recover. Last year, HCM … [Read more...] about HCM City: Tourism sector endures losses of over 426 mln USD in Q1