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.

There are huge crowds at all traffic police stations in Hà Nội that accept registrations for the transfer of bike ownership, as the December 31 deadline draws to a close.

The National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) will focus investment on increasing vaccination rate and quality in mountainous, remote and difficult areas in 2017.