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.

Poverty reduction programmes have had positive impacts on the living standards of ethnic minorities, but the challenge of sustaining the gains remains, experts say.

The sight glass of a steam boiler at Hoà Bình Sugarcane JSC in northern Hoà Bình Province recently exploded, killing a worker who was operating the boiler.

Trans-provincial coach operators yesterday refused to take on passengers at Mỹ Đình coach station in protest against the route changes by the Hà Nội Department of Transport.