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Despite Brasil’s import being reduced under the influence of the global financial crisis, Vietnam ’s exports to the country in the first half of 2009 topped 80 million USD, a year-on-year increase of 5.72 percent.

CPI in July rose by 0.52 percent against June and 3.31 percent compared to the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

Trade officials from Vietnam and China ’s Hainan province on July 9 inked a memorandum of understanding following discussions, vowing to further boost the bilateral exchange of trade.

Flagship carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced that it was able to maintain growth in the first half of the year despite the ‘one-two punch’ dealt by the global economic recession and A/H1N1 flu.

Vietnam’s insurance market has maintained a high growth rate despite the adverse impact of the world economic crisis, industry insiders have said.

Retail sales revenues nationwide experienced an average monthly increase of 2 percent in the first six-months of the year despite decreases in the industrial production value and exports.

Vietnam has signed agreements worth more than 1.78 billion USD in official development assistance (ODA) with international donors in the first half of the year, a year-on-year rise of 15.9 percent.