Ho Chi Minh City desires to become an international financial centre
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NDO – Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City has set the target of becoming a smart and modern service-industrial city and maintaining its position as an economic locomotive and a growth driver of the southern key economic region and the whole country by 2025. By 2030, the city is expected to become an economic, financial, trade, science-technology and cultural centre of the Southeast Asian region.
The 11th Congress of the HCM City Party Committee (2020-2025 tenure) has designed 26 development targets for the term across five areas, including the GRDP growing 8% on average annually, the digital economy contributing 25% to the GRDP by 2025 and 40% by 2030, the social labour productivity expanding 7% on average annually, and at least 95% of the people being satisfied with the service of state administrative agencies in each field.
Friday, April 30, 2021, 22:16 GMT+7
People enjoy their drinks at a bar in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Gia Tien / Tuoi Tre
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have decided to shut down local bars, discos, and karaoke parlors following the recent detection of a community-base COVID-19 infection.
Bars, discos, and karaoke parlors in the metropolis will be closed from 6:00 pm on Friday, the first day of the weekend holiday marking the Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers’ Day (May 1), until further notice.
Other services are required to strictly comply with COVID-19 prevention and control measures, chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said at a meeting on Friday morning.
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In their messages of sympathy sent to their Indian counterparts Ram Nath Kovind and Narendra Modi, State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said they share difficulties faced by the Indian people in the fierce battle against COVID-19 in the context that the pandemic is developing complicatedly around the world.
HCMC fines citizens $1,000 for not wearing masks
By Ha An April 28, 2021 | 04:23 pm GMT+7
A man in HCMC is given a face mask for free by a member of a patrol team. Photo by VnExpress/Ha An.
Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday fined 12 people VND24 million ($1,040) for not wearing masks in public.
At a restaurant on Huynh Van Banh Street of Phu Nhuan District, three employees and one customer were found not wearing masks and fined VND2 million each.
Six people at the September 23 Park near the Ben Thanh Market of District 1 were also fined for the same reason.
That same morning, a patrol team called on local residents to wear masks, keep their distances and medically declare themselves, adding those who refuse could be fined up to VND3 million. Those without masks would be provided ones for free by ward authorities.