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Ho Chi Minh City construction update – 2023 edition

November 7, 2023 By James Clark 1 Comment

This is the 5th annual Ho Chi Minh City construction update at Future Southeast Asia (here are the updates for 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022). It’s been an eventful year since the last update, so let’s get started. This is a general overview, and not an exhaustive list. Construction news One Central HCM One Central […]

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Line 2 HCMC Metro

October 30, 2023 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Line 2 of the Ho Chi Minh City Metro (HCMC Metro) is the planned second line of the Ho Chi Minh City transit system. Phase 1 will go from Ben Thanh Station (interchanging with Line 1) to Tan Binh. The total length is 11.3 km (9.3 km underground and 2 km elevated) with 11 stations […]

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Thu Thiem New Urban Area: the Pudong of Southeast Asia

September 11, 2023 By James Clark 1 Comment

Thu Thiem New Urban Area is an urban redevelopment project in Ho Chi Minh City. The area is on the Thu Thiem Peninsula in the municipal division Thu Duc City (a city within the city of Ho Chi Minh City). New urban areas are usually built far from the city centre. In the case of […]

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Thu Thiem Theater project restarted

August 12, 2023 By Future Southeast Asia Leave a Comment

City – Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Phan Van Mai has just signed and promulgated Plan No. 3818/KH-UBND to deploy typical emulation programs, works and projects to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation Day of the South, unification of the country (April 30, 1975 – April 30, 2025). The […]

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Ben Thanh Station: A 3-line metro interchange that will transform Ho Chi Minh City

July 11, 2023 By James Clark 1 Comment

Ben Thanh Station is the future central station of the Ho Chi Minh City Metro. The station will be an interchange for three lines, and it will include a remodeled pedestrian area and an underground shopping plaza. The underground station is in front of the historic Ben Thanh Market, under what was Quach Thi Trang […]

Filed Under: Urban Rail Transit Tagged With: ho chi minh city, ho chi minh city metro, metro, vietnam

Can Gio Tourist City

May 30, 2023 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Can Gio Tourist City is a proposed new urban area in Can Gio district of Ho Chi Minh City. The project is also known as Can Gio Resort Town and Can Gio sea encroachment tourism and urban area project. The proposed project will cover 2,870 hectares on existing Can Gio coastline and reclaimed land, and […]

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Ho Chi Minh City Metro 2022 construction update

July 5, 2022 By James Clark Leave a Comment

Ho Chi Minh City is in the midst of building its first metro line, and planning for at least another 10 lines. Every year I do a “State of the Metro” report to follow the construction progress and other lines under consideration (here are the 2020 and 2021 reports). Another year has gone by and […]

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Ho Chi Minh City construction update – 2022 edition

June 21, 2022 By James Clark Leave a Comment

This is the 4th annual Ho Chi Minh City construction update at Future Southeast Asia. (If you are new to the site, here are the updates for 2019, 2020, and 2021.) This update features some of the most prominent projects that are under construction, and projects that have had noteable news updates over the past […]

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Proposed speeds of the Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City Express Railway

May 16, 2022 By James Clark 3 Comments

Should the future Vietnam North-South Express Railway be a high-speed or semi-high-speed railway? Vietnam is planning to commence construction of the North-South express railway in 2028-2029. Even with years of feasibility studies and consultancy reports, no decision has been made on how fast the new railway should be. The fastest proposal has called for a […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Railways Tagged With: hanoi, high speed rail, ho chi minh city, vietnam

Comparison of cost and construction times of first metro lines in Asia

November 6, 2021 By James Clark 7 Comments

The first metro lines of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have now been completed, and like most first lines of a metro system, they were delayed and over budget. Line 2A of the Hanoi Metro was originally planned to be operational by 2016, while the first metro line in Ho Chi Minh City had […]

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