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Singapore will suspend ticket sales for Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) flights and buses from December 23 due to Omicron COVID-19 variant concerns.

The Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) has announced that the total market sales of its member units reached 38,656 vehicles last month, a month-on-month increase of 30 percent, and a year-on-year increase of 6 percent.

VinFast Trading and Service Limited Liability Company, a subsidiary automaker of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, enjoyed a month-on-month increase of 15.3 percent in sales in November, to 3,829 vehicles.

Honda Vietnam on December 10 announced that its retail sales of motorbikes and automobiles in November rose by 19.4 percent and 51 percent month-on-month, respectively.

Singapore’s retail sales in October rose by 7.5 percent annually after registering a 6.8 percent increase in September, reported the Department of Statistics Singapore (DOS) on December 3.

COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on the incomes of many people over recent times. To increase sales and promote domestic consumption, additional stimulus policies are now needed.

Total retail sales of goods and services plunged 8.7 percent year-on-year to nearly 4.13 trillion VND in the first 11 months of this year, the latest report by the General Statistics Office (GSO) shows.

The overuse and misuse of antibiotics by consumers are regarded as key drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Vietnam, according to Dr. Kidong Park, WHO Representative to Vietnam.

The domestic auto market is expected to grow further in the remaining months of this year after expanding up to 120 percent in October, experts have said.

Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) sold 7,274 automobiles in October, down 19 percent over the same period last year, the firm has reported.

Honda Vietnam said its retail sales of motorbikes and automobiles experienced sharp rises last month compared to September.

TC Motor, a joint venture between Vietnam’s Thanh Cong Group and the Republic of Korea’s Hyundai Motor announced on November 11 that 8,855 Hyundai vehicles were sold in October, an increase of 117 percent compared to the previous month.

The Vietnam Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (VAMM) has said its members sold 367,037 motorbikes in the third quarter of 2021, a year-on-year drop of 45.84 percent.

Car sales in Vietnam increased by 52 percent in September after five consecutive months of decline, showing positive signs for the car market in the year-end months.

Automaker VinFast, a subsidiary of conglomerate Vingroup, sold 3,497 vehicles in September, posting a month-on-month surge of 51.4 percent despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honda Vietnam sold 99,652 motorbikes of all kinds in September, a month-on-month rise of 0.9 percent.

Automaker VinFast, a subsidiary of conglomerate Vingroup, sold 3,497 vehicles in September, posting a month-on-month surge of 51.4 percent despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sales of cement products reached about 77.47 million tonnes in the first nine months of this year, up 3.5 percent year on year despite difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Construction's Department of Construction Materials.

The total retail sales of consumer goods and services in September increased 65.5 percent against August as production, business and service activities resumed in some localities after the COVID-19 is put under control.

Amid the complex COVID-19 situation, accelerating the disbursement of public investment is one of the focal tasks Hanoi will carry out in the remaining months of 2021 to achieve the best possible economic outcomes.