There will be no adjustment of the foreign exchange (forex) rate at present, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

Petrol retailers have reduced their price by VND300 per litre as from 8pm on August 22 at the request of the ministries of Finance and Industry and Trade.

(VOV) - Credit organisations expect 2013’s consumer price index (CPI) to reach 6.77 percent, slightly higher than the Government’s 6–6.5 percent target.

(VOV) - Ho Chi Minh City’s August consumer price index (CPI) nudged up 0.31% from July’s figure and 3.17% on the equivalent timeframe in 2012. 

(VOV) - Vietnam’s exports to France hit more than US$1 billion in the first half of this year, up 6.3% on the same period last year.

Business players from home and abroad converged at the 2013 Shape the World conference in Ho Chi Minh City on August 15 to consider how to promote Vietnamese trademarks to the world. 

(VOV) - Vietnam’s exports to Belgium have sharply increased in recent years, hitting a record high of US$1.44 billion in 2012.

(VOV) - Vietnam has recalled two more product lines of Abbott infant milk power suspected of Clostridium botulinum bacteria infection.

(VOV) -DiscoRobo, a new-generation hi-tech toy made in Vietnam, will be sold on the domestic market at a cost of VND499,000/unit as of August 25.

Hanoi will provide VND318 billion (roughly US$15 million) in zero-interest loans between July 2013 and April 2014 in a bid to stabilise the price of essential goods.