Golden land in Ho Chi Minh City is being constructed to make a flower garden for the Binh Ngo Tet.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction also has a document requesting relevant agencies, localities, and businesses to deploy the removal of fences for 9 land plots and develop plans to build parks and flower gardens to serve people during the Binh Ngo Tet.
9 land plots with prime locations in Saigon, Tan Dinh, Ben Thanh, Cau Ong Lanh, Ban Co, Xuan Hoa, Nhieu Loc wards include: No. 8-12 Le Duan; No. 2-4-6 Hai Ba Trung; No. 33 Nguyen Du and clusters 34-36, 42 Chu Manh Trinh; 135 Nguyen Hue - 39 Le Loi; No. 87 Cong Quynh; No. 74 Ho Hao Hon - 289 Tran Hung Dao; Le Thanh Ton - Nam Ky Khoi Nghia - Nguyen Trung Truc - Le Loi quadrilateral area; land plot No. 8 Vo Van Tan; land plot No. 152 Tran Phu. See more...

Ho Chi Minh City to open to traffic the 4-lane road built on the drainage canal
After more than 1 year of construction, canal A41 is undergrounded with box culverts, forming a 12 m wide road with 4 lanes above, expected to open to traffic in the first quarter of 2026.
The section of canal A41 from Giai Phong street to alley 108 Cong Hoa has completed the installation of box culverts, and above is the 4-lane road basically formed.
Workers are compacting the roadbed, preparing to pave asphalt; the sidewalk bundle has been installed, waiting for sidewalk bricks to be paved. Although not completely completed, people can already travel by motorbike through this section. See more...
Gold prices anchor high, people in Ho Chi Minh City change their way of accumulating
At some large gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, the buying and selling atmosphere in recent days has been quite bustling. At Mi Hong store (Gia Dinh ward), the number of customers coming to trade is crowded, people are given serial numbers and come to the transaction counter in turn, avoiding the situation of jostling as before.
Many customers said that buying gold rings and gold bars is quite difficult nowadays. At SJC Company, with gold bars, each person is only allowed to buy a maximum of 1 tael/time, and must register online in advance to be eligible for transactions. Meanwhile, gold rings are also limited in quantity, only about 100 customers are allowed to buy each day due to insufficient supply. See more...

Ho Chi Minh City collects DNA samples for relatives of martyrs
On January 17, the Department of Administrative Management of Social Order (PC06) - Ho Chi Minh City Police announced a plan to coordinate with Department C06 - Ministry of Public Security to implement a program to collect DNA samples for relatives of unidentified martyrs throughout the city. This is a policy with profound humanistic meaning, expressing the Party and State's responsibility and gratitude to those who sacrificed for national independence.
The biological sample collection program will officially start from January 19, 2026 and last until the end of January 23, 2026 with working hours divided into two shifts, morning and afternoon. See more...
Investigating the case of a young man dying in an industrial park in Ho Chi Minh City
The fatal incident was discovered at about 1:30 pm on January 17 in a garden by N1 road, Nam Tan Uyen industrial park, Tan Hiep ward, Ho Chi Minh City.
Initial information, at the above time, people moving on N1 road, Nam Tan Uyen industrial park saw a person in a hanging position, inside a garden.
When they came to check, they discovered that the victim had died. The incident was then reported to the authorities. See more...