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The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) set its reference VND/USD exchange rate at 22,446 VND/USD in the morning of November 17, down by 3 VND from the previous day.

Shares declined on the HCM Stock Exchange on October 31 as large-cap stocks were hit by profit-taking after the market advanced for two consecutive sessions.

The Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association on October 10 reported that automobile sales in September drop 20 percent compared to the same period last year and 4 percent over the previous month.

The number of new HIV infection cases in Malaysia declined 34 percent in the last six years, higher than the regional average of 13 percent.

Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index reached a 10-year high last week on the back of a few blue chips. However, the gain was unstable and the index could face a short-term drop in the coming sessions.

Ho Chi Minh City has seen a downward trend in dengue-fever disease, but a surge in hand-foot-mouth disease since August, particularly in the new school year.

The number of new dengue fever cases in Hanoi has dropped in the recent two weeks but is still high, heard a meeting of the Steering Committee on Epidemics Prevention and Control in Hanoi on August 25.

For the last few years, an increasing number of students in Hai Ninh commune in central Quang Binh province’s Quang Ninh district have dropped out of school to help their parents with fishing at sea.

The number of traffic accidents, deaths and injured people went down in both July and the first seven months of 2017, according to statistics provided by the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

Mekong Delta provinces cultivated 355,400 hectares of Fall-Winter rice crops by mid-July, an 8.7 percent drop from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The price of RON 92 decreased by 435 VND per litre from 5:00pm on July 5, according to the latest adjustment of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance the same day.

Agriculture firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has predicted 6.33 trillion VND (281.5 million VND) in total revenue and 552 billion VND in pre-tax profit in 2017, the company announced at its recent annual shareholder meeting.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in June continued its drop trend, the municipal Statistics Office announced but did not give specific figures.

Interest rates for different terms from now to the end of 2017 are likely to decline by 0.5–1 percent from 2016 thanks to positive signals from the stock and property markets, macro-economic indexes, the Government’s attentions to businesses and banks’ strategies for attracting new clients.

More than 9,500 traffic accidents occurred across the country in the first six months of this year, killing more than 4,100 people and injuring over 7,000 others, according to the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

Market research firm MarketIntello has forecast that Vietnam’s inflation may fall to below 3 percent, lower than the rate of 3.8 percent it predicted last month.

The weakening of the UK sterling will not have much impact on Vietnamese exports since it is expected to be short-lived, said an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Natural forest area in the Central Highlands region has been declining significantly due to illegal exploitation and deforestation.

Vietnam is expected to harvest only 0.87 tonnes of cashew nuts per ha in 2017, 0.21 tonnes or nearly 20 percent less than 2016’s output per ha, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on June 1.

CPI in May dropped by 0.53 percent from previous month, with the price of foodstuff and restaurant service seeing a sharpest fall of 1.43 percent.