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The southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City posted a month-on-month rise of 0.38 percent in the consumer price index (CPI) in October, the municipal Statistics Office reported.

The Foreign Investment Agency reported that total newly-registered and adjusted capital, and shares purchased by foreign investors reached 29.11 billion USD in the first ten months of this year.

The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has announced that it generated a total 182.6 billion kWh of electricity during the January-October period, a year-on-year increase of 10.7 percent.

The Republic of Korea earned 82.32 billion USD from exports to the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) in the January-October period this year, an increase of 4.7 percent year on year.

Total revenue from retail sales and services in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is estimated at 100.5 trillion VND (4.28 billion USD) during the January-October period, accounting for 85.5 percent of the yearly plan and an increase of 12.5 percent year-on-year.

Automobiles sales in the first ten months of 2016 increased 30 percent to 242,681 units compared to the same period last year, announced the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association on November 9