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Total export-import turnover in July reached 60.36 billion USD, up 6.1% year-on-year but down 6.8% month-on-month, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

The total new registered, adjusted capital and capital contribution for share purchase in Vietnam topped 15.4 billion USD in seven months of this year, up 93% annually. Of which, 11.6 billion USD were disbursed, up 10.2%.

Singapore’s economy expanded 4.8% year on year in the second quarter of 2022, led by the manufacturing sector, according to advance estimates released by the country’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on July 14.

The average Consumer Price Index (CPI) of Vietnam in the first six months of this year increased by only 2.44% compared to the same period last year. This is attributable to the proactive efforts by the government to cope with the challenges caused by the increasing inflation pressure felt all over the world.

As the aviation and tourism industries have bounced back strongly, the Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company kicked off 2022 with great performance, posting a year-on-year surge of 113 percent in pre-tax profit in the first quarter.

The year-on-year inflation rate jumped to 7.3 percent in February, the highest figure recorded in Laos since January 2016.

The 2022 Lunar New Year holiday will last from January 31 through February 4, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has agreed.

GDP in Q4 is estimated to increase by 5.2% over the same period last year, higher than the growth rate of 4.6% in 2020 but lower than that of Q4 of 2011-2019.

Indonesia will impose the public mobility restriction or PPKM Level 3 for all regions during the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year holidays, an official has said.

The Bao Viet Securities Company (BVSC) has just approved a resolution to increase its profit plan for 2021.

Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) in October went down 0.41 percent month-on-month and moved up 2.02 percent year-on-year, reported the municipal Statistics Office on October 29.

Foreign investors poured 23.74 billion USD in new projects, existing projects, and in contribution of capital and share purchases as of October 20, up 1.1 percent year-on-year, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Residential real estate in Vietnam is still one of the fastest-growing markets in Southeast Asia despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has halted many economic activities, according to experts from property consultant Savills Vietnam.

Thanks to the adoption of drastic COVID-19 prevention measures at ports, the volume of goods that passed through ports in the first eight months of the year increased by 18 percent year-on-year to 16.8 million TEUs, the Vietnam Maritime Administration said.

Total retail sales of goods and services shrank 8.3 percent month-on-month in July to 339.4 trillion VND (14.84 billion USD) as a result of restrictions induced to stem the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Total salt and brackish water aquaculture output in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh reached 28,000 tonnes in the first five months of 2021, with shrimp output of over 20,000 tonnes, an increase of 6,000 tonnes year-on-year.

There were 122,000 flights from and to Vietnamese airports in the first five months of this year, down 5.9 percent year-on-year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

Vietnam earned 790 million USD from exporting aquatic products in May, lifting the total figure in the first five months of this year to nearly 3.3 billion USD, a year-on-year rise of 14 percent.

As many as 59,800 businesses temporarily suspended or stopped their operations to await dissolution procedures and completed dissolution procedures in the first five months of 2021, up 23 percent year-on-year.

Ho Chi Minh City’s State budget collection is estimated to hit 174.6 trillion VND (7.57 billion USD) during January-May, equivalent to 49 percent of the yearly estimates and up 22.8 percent year-on-year.