On Jan 2, HCMC’s People’s Committee instructed the Trade and Investment Promotion Center to encourage the editors’ board and staff of Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper to comply with the committee’s decision to merge the paper with the Saigon Times Group.
A number of youths in Ho Chi Minh City are taking part in a volunteer project which aims to help patients at overcrowded hospitals.
Staff and volunteers at the Central Epidemic Hygiene Institute have acted as victims of the mosquitoes’ blood sucking frenzy over the past few years to breed dengue-free mosquitoes.