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Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in January inched up by only 0.35% month-on-month and 3.09% year-on-year, the municipal Statistics Office has reported.

Nearly 597,000 foreigners visited Vietnam in November, up over 23% month-on-month, bringing the total number of foreign tourists to the country in the first 11 months of this year to 2.95 million.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) in the January – June period rose by 2.44% year-on-year while its core inflation edged up 1.25%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Vietnam in the first two quarters of 2022 increased 6.8 times over the same period of 2021, reaching 602,000, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Cashless payment has become more popular in all sectors, including restaurant and catering services, according to Winnie Wong, Mastercard’s Country Manager for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

The January consumer price index (CPI) in Ho Chi Minh City inched up 0.25 percent month on month and 1.42 percent year on year, the municipal Statistics Office reported.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will resume its in-flight meals starting January 15 after a long halt triggered by COVID-19 concerns, the carrier said on January 13.

This year’s average consumer price index (CPI) in Ho Chi Minh City grew 2.36 percent from 2020, the municipal Statistics Office reported on December 30.

Vietnam will certainly keep its inflation rate under 4 percent for the whole year as targeted by the National Assembly since the average Consumer Price Index (CPI) growth is now estimated at around 2 percent, according to Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai.

The total retail sales and service revenue surged 10.02 percent year-on-year to 1.695 quadrillion VND (over 73.5 billion USD) in the first four months of 2021, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Vietnam invested a total of 330 million USD abroad in the first eight months of this year, up 15. 8 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Planning and Investment reported.

Retail and service revenue amounted to some 2.38 quadrillion VND (103 billion USD) in June, up 6.2 percent on month and 5.3 percent on year.

Islands off southern Kien Giang province and tourist attraction sites reopened over the weekend after social distancing measures were eased.

The total retail sales and service revenue rose 8.3 percent year-on-year to over 863.9 trillion VND (37.4 billion USD) in the first two months of 2020, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Total retail sales of goods and services in Vietnam in the first seven months of the year rose 11.6 percent from the same period in 2018 to reach 2.8 quadrillion VND (120.36 billion USD).

The consumer price index (CPI) of Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s biggest economic hub, increased by 0.58 percent in May compared with the previous month and 4.41 percent year-on-year, the municipal Statistics Office announced on May 29.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in April rose 0.24 percent from the previous month and 4.35 percent against the same time last year, reported the city Statistics Office.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in February rose by 0.89 percent month-on-month and 3.89 percent from the same month last year, according to the city’s Statistics Office.

The consumer price index (CPI) of Ho Chi Minh City rose 0.47 percent month-on-month in February and 3.58 percent over the same period last year, reported the city’s Statistics Office on February 28.

The Noi Bai Catering Service JSC (NCS), a member of the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, has inaugurated a new food processing centre at the Noi Bai International Airport.