Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan (R) receives visiting former US President Barack Obama on December 09, 2019. (Photo: VNA)

The former President promised to continue contributing to relations between HCM City and the US, and serve as a bridge to the US for Vietnamese firms. Obama and his wife Michelle are in Vietnam until Wednesday to introduce Global Girls – a program to promote universal education for girls and working-class women.