The deputy chairman of Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 People’s Committee, Doan Ngoc Hai, has resigned after failing to stop pavement encroachment in the area. Deputy chairman of Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 People’s Committee, Doan Ngoc Hai (right) ask to move cars from a street pavement in 2017 In his resignation which was submitted at the District meeting on January 8, Hai wrote that he started taking responsibility in urban management in March 2016 and set a target of dealing with illegal pavement encroachment on local streets.”We started a campaign against pavement encroachment in the area in January 2017 and have set a good model for many other localities nation-wide to follow,” Hai wrote.”But my work has affected the operation of many street-side restaurants, hotels, bars or parking lots which are making huge profits from the pavements,” Hai continued. “I’ve tried to fight against their illegal work and ignored lots of death threats from them.”However, the official concluded that he failed to fulfil his promise of completely ending the illegal encroachment and so he would resign from his post.Earlier, speaking with the local media when starting his campaign in February, Hai said that he didn’t know how the former managers worked but he would take a radical method to deal with the problem this year. He also said that if he couldn’t take back the pavement for pedestrians by the end of 2017, he would resign.
Permanent Deputy Secretaryof the HCM City Party’s Committee Nguyen Van Dua made the statement athis meetings with General Secretary of the Argentinean Communist PartyPatricio Echegaray, Deputy Speaker of Buenos Aires City Council DanteGullo and Chairman of the Vietnam-Argentina Culture Institute Poldi Sosaon September 23-24 as part of his working visit to the Latin Americancountry. The visit was made at a time when Vietnamand Argentina are taking practical activities to mark their 40-year-olddiplomatic ties and pushing for stronger friendship and cooperation. The HCM City official also introduced to the hosts his city’s role asVietnam’s largest economic hub, a big centre of…... [read more]
During the visit,which began on May 20, HCM City officials will have a workingsession with Huaphane provincial authorities and attend a ceremony tohand over the headquarters of Huaphane provincial administration. They will pay a courtesy visit to leaders of the capital city ofVientiane and offer incense at the memorial dedicated to Vietnamesevolunteer soldiers and the other to Lao martyrs.-VNA... [read more]
VietNamNet Bridge – Schools with 500 students or more should set up kitchens to make food for them to reduce the risk of food poisoning, HCM City officials have suggested. Schools without canteens buy prepared meals from caterers, which poses a high risk of food poisoning, Phuong Dai Ngoc, deputy head of the city Food Safety Management Board’s food poisoning management office, said. In the past few years every food poisoning incident at schools occurred at places without canteens, he told a conference on Wednesday on food safety at schools. In 2015 there had been only one incident, with 97…... [read more]
Speaking at a meeting on Tuesday about the situation, Nguyen Thanh Phong said that city districts had yet to ensure traffic safety, which was their main task.“As the head of traffic safety board in districts, do you (chairs of people’s committees) not see the seriousness of the problem? As many as 396 people have died due to traffic accidents in the first six months,” he said.“It is vital to have solutions right now,” he added.District authorities were told to speed up construction of traffic works and repair of roads, which often causes.“The city’s population has increased to 12 million, but…... [read more]
Liem appreciated the initiative on organising a Vietnam-India trade forum on the occasion of the Indian business delegation’s working visit to Vietnam.He noted that there are currently over 60 investment projects of India worth US$60-US$70 million in Ho Chi Minh City, and pledged to facilitate India’s investment in the city.The official said the areas of interest for Indian firms such as IT, hi-tech production, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and processing are in line with HCM City’s development orientation. He suggested the firms study the city’s lists of projects inviting investment for suitable opportunities.Indronil Sengupta said business members of the India Industrial Federation…... [read more]
