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Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.59 percent in September over the previous month-the highest monthly increase since the beginning of the year.

Vietnam’s programme on population and family planning is coping with new challenges in order to maintain the country’s fertility reduction trend and improve the quality of human resources.

Ho Chi Minh City saw an alarming gender imbalance as among newborns in the first four months of this year with a birth rate of 115 boys for every 100 girls, compared to 110 for every 100 in late 2008, said a municipal senior official.

Humanitarian organisation Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) has funded the construction and equipping of 62 communal medical stations in central Khanh Hoa province.