Ho Chi Minh City Party Chief Nguyen Thien Nhan received former US President Barack Obama yesterday when the former US President paid a courtesy visit to the city party leader.
Politburo member, secretary of HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan together with leaders of the Departments of Science and Technology, Education and Training, Industry and Trade and HCMC Business Association visited HCMC University of Technology and Education yesterday afternoon.
Three long term breakthrough solutions have been supplemented to sufficiently mobilize resources and create motive power for HCMC to develop more sustainably, faster than before and suitably with current urban development rules, said Secretary of HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan in an interview with Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper.
HCMC People’s Committee yesterday organized a conference calling on investors to implement six urban planning projects to remove 6,223 canal houses with total capital expected to reach VND19,024 billion (US$838 million).
Ho Chi Minh City will establish an innovative urban area in the east of the city on the basic of connecting Saigon Hi-Tech Park in District 9, HCMC National University in Thu Duc and the urban area and financial center in District 2.
Ho Chi Minh City honoured ten outstanding young citizens of 2017, who excel in their fields and exemplify the best attributes of the city’s young people, in a ceremony on January 1.
The high level delegation from HCMC led by Secretary of the city Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday worked with leaders of California University, Los Angeles (UCLA), making it the final working session of the delegation’s eight day visit to the US.
Ho Chi Minh City would establish an innovative startup consulting center in Thu Thiem new urban area and an employment website for overseas high level human resource to work in Vietnam, said City Party Chief Nguyen Thien Nhan on December 11.
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on December 9 said he hoped that Vietnamese startups in the United States would continue contributing initiatives and resources to improve the city’s startup ecosystem.
