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Strict monetary policies to curb inflation

Tighter controls on inflation and maintaining steady prices on essential items through the end of the year and during the upcoming holiday season were hot topics at yesterday's regular Government meeting.

Industrial output creeps up

The national Index of Industrial Production (IIP) rose by 5.2 per cent in October, helping boost the Index for the first 10 months by 7 per cent over the same period last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) has reported.

Capital's trade deficit hits $12.5 billion

The capital experienced a trade deficit of more than US$12.5 billion in the first ten months of the year, according to the Ha Noi Statistics Office.

Decline in new mobile phone subscribers

s of the end of August, the number of telephone subscribers in Viet Nam is estimated at 128.8 million, a 4.3 per cent year-on-year increase. However, the number of new subscribers this month alone has continued to decline sharply compared to the same period last year.

Foreign tourism increases by 17.3%

Some 460,000 foreign tourists visited Viet Nam in July, bringing the total number of visitors to the country in the first seven months to 3.43 million, up 17.3 per cent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VN welcomes 3.43m foreign visitors in Jan-July

FPT corporation makes high profits in H1

Despite the global turmoil, FPT corporation continued to perform well in the first six months, posting a revenue of VND12.1 trillion (US$592 million), up 22 per cent over the same period last year.

Foreign investors poured $5.3b to VN in H1

Foreign investors poured US$5.3 billion into the country in the first half of the year, down nearly 2 per cent against the same period last year, the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Foreign Investment Agency reported.

Exports to US rise 22.5% in first half

Viet Nam earned over US$6.15 billion from exporting goods to the US in the first five months of the year, an increase of 22.5 per cent from the same period last year.

Viet Nam-US trade up nearly 20% in Q1

Two-way trade between Viet Nam and the US in the first quarter of 2011 reached US$4.74 billion, an increase of $779.5 million or 19.6 per cent over the same period last year.

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