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Culture & heritage · Jun 17 – Oct 17
We, the Rivers of Southern Vietnam
HCMC History Museum
Open daily 10am–5pm · runs until 17 Oct 2026 · standard museum admission applies.
EXHIBITION | WE, THE RIVERS OF SOUTHERN VIETNAM | NOUS, LES FLEUVES DU SUD
Opening: 10:00AM, 17.06.2026Exhibition: 17.06 - 17.10.2026Location: HCMC History Museum | 2 Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, Saigon Ward, HCMCAdmission tickets: according to museum regulations.
Within the framework of the Living with Rivers project, initiated by the Embassy of France in Vietnam and the French Institute in Vietnam, the exhibition “We, the Rivers of Southern Vietnam” offers diverse perspectives on the relatio...
Got a working climate-tech prototype (energy storage, carbon capture, agri-waste recycling)? It could win you a share of a VND 15 billion grant: equity-free, fee-free, no hidden terms, awarded so you can run a real pilot in Vietnam. The judges are investors and corporates who stick around after the pitch.
This is the fourth edition of Net Zero Challenge, run by Vietnamese VC firm Touchstone Partners and Singapore's Temasek Foundation, in partnership with the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies (HIDS) and the Vietnam International Financial Centre (VIFC-HCMC). The first three editions drew over 1,500 applications; the 2025 round alone brought in more than 700 from 60 countries.
A free pop-up park in Phú Mỹ Hưng's P2 Park by Saigon architecture studio Studio Anettai, inspired by the city's rainy season. The Rain Park is a 20-metre structure that catches and filters rainwater so kids can pump and splash it safely while seeing how it gets from sky to basin. The Night Plaza is a lawn with seating and soft lamps by local designer mài for an evening hangout. Open daily 3pm to 8pm until November 1. Two special evenings: Water Evening on September 19 with a walk, a paid yoga session (registration needed) and a lantern parade, and Water in the City on October 3, a Saigon River workshop by Gieo Collective.
Võ Huỳnh Phú's small-format works at Ôm Môi Studio sit with the pull between worldly desire and religious ideal, in a visual language drawn from Vietnamese folk culture and Buddhist and Taoist symbols. Working small brings his strange world close. Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm, until October 15, free entry.
A group show at Toong with Khang Lê, Quí Phan and Hoàng Sinh, built around the limits of sight and the incompleteness of any single viewpoint. The three practices do not widen the frame so much as offer different positions on the same world, from wide landscape to private tremor. Open Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm, through October, free entry.
Lotus Gallery shows work by painter Mai San from the 1960s to the 1990s, mostly ink and gouache on paper. Quick drying and suited to sketching on the spot, the medium let her catch passing moments on her travels: upland villages, markets, river landings and festivals, set down in flat, decisive blocks of vermilion, indigo, green and bright yellow. Open daily 9am to 6pm until November 1, free entry.
100s of people from around the world meet weekly to socialise, have a drink, and meet foreign and local people of all ages. It's chilled, fun and free.
The flags: place flags on your chest top to bottom by fluency (flags for 200+ places available). Stand to mingle, sit to dwindle. Talk about anything you like, you don’t have to be an advanced speaker.
Every Thursday. Reception 8pm–midnight (arrive then if you’re new or want the drink specials).
Meet new people, make international and local friends, practice languages, and have fun over board games — a weekly meetup by BlaBla Community.
English and Vietnamese are the most common languages. Register on the BlaBla Community website; café venue, so no outside food or drinks.
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A weekly French film night at DCiné: every Saturday evening a French feature screens with subtitles, followed by an informal chat for anyone who wants to stay. A relaxed way to catch French cinema on a big screen in the centre of town.
The first Vietnam edition of SIAL, one of the world’s largest food and beverage exhibitions: an all-in-one showcase spanning the whole industry, from ingredients and packaged food to drinks, equipment and food tech, with hundreds of exhibitors and international pavilions. Open daily 09:00 to 17:00.
The Ho Chi Minh City edition of Vietnam Expo, the country’s long-running general trade fair: consumer goods, food, machinery and services from local and international exhibitors under one roof at SECC.
