The development of satellite urban areas is expected to help Hà Nội share the burden of accommodation, training, industry and services, but resources are needed to develop this model, according to experts.

Phùng Xuân Nhạ, Minister of Education and Training, speaks to the newspaper Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) about the goals of his ministry for 2017.

More than 10,000 production establishments in HCM City situated outside industrial zones will be relocated, according to the city People’s Committee.

Nearly 5 million workers in the textile, electronics and retail sectors will be affected by the technology movement, according to a survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Việt Nam (VCCI) on labour market trends.

A poster contest on the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Year 2017, which will be hosted by Việt Nam next year, was officially launched yesterday.

HCM City has announced measures to ease traffic congestion, which has worsened recently, during the upcoming festival season.

Traffic safety was improved in 2016 with decreases in all types of accidents and the number of deaths and injuries, it was reported at a national conference of traffic police in Đà Nẵng City yesterday.

The People’s Court of Quảng Ninh Province yesterday sentenced to death six defendants in a drug trafficking ring, which involved the trade of more than 5,000 heroin cakes.

In 2017 HCM City will focus its spending on key construction works and seven breakthrough programmes like relocating people living along slums in canals and building new apartments replacing old, dilapidated ones, a conference heard yesterday.