Vietnam recorded a trade deficit of 1.3 billion USD in May, resulting in a total deficit of 548 million USD for the first five months of the year, according to General Statistics Office (GSO)s monthly report.
Vietnam’s total retail sales of goods and services in the first five months of 2019 increased 11.6 percent year-on-year to 19.8 quadrillion (almost 85 billion USD), according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Nearly 90 percent of enterprises operating in processing and manufacturing predict that their production and business would be better or remain stable in the second quarter of 2019, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The first edition of the White Book on Vietnamese businesses compiled by the General Statistics Office (GSO) is expected to be released later this month, according to the GSO.
Government inspectors will investigate the latest power price increase by 8.36 percent to 1,864 VND (8.03 US cents) per kWh from March 20 following concerns among the public.
Goods and services trading continued its upward trend in the January-April period with the retail sale value increasing at the highest rate since 2015.
The industrial production index (IIP) for the first four months of this year increased by an estimated 9.2 percent year on year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Vietnam recorded a year-on-year rise of 2.71 percent in the consumer price index (CPI) between January and April of 2019, a three-year low in the period.
Although the petrol price has increased twice in April, adding 1,000 VND per litre in the latest adjustment on April 17, the consumer price index (CPI) is still under the control of the Government, experts have said.
The General Statistics Office (GSO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are working together toreview the methods to evaluate the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) scale of Vietnam.
The number of newly-established businesses in the first quarter of this year reached 28,451 with the total registered capital of 375.5 trillion VND (16.14 billion USD), up 6.2 percent and 34.8 percent year-on-year, respectively.
The national industrial production index (IIP) saw a year-on-year increase of 9.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Improved exports in March helped Vietnam gain a trade surplus of 536 million USD in the first quarter after running deficits in the first two months, the latest update from the General Statistics Office (GSO) revealed.
The General Statistics Office (GSO) began a national population and housing census on April 1 to evaluate national targets and indicators of sustainable development.
Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 6.79 percent in the first quarter of 2019, heard a press conference in Hanoi on March 29.
A set of statistical indicators on sustainable development in Vietnam was announced at a conference in Hanoi on March 19.
The 2019 enterprise survey will focus on collecting information to access the status of support industries in manufacturing and processing and logistics, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The country’s total retail sales and services revenue rose 12.2 percent year-on-year to 793.8 trillion VND (35.2 billion USD) in the first two months of this year.
