A report of United Overseas Bank (UOB Vietnam) shows that 76% of Vietnamese people are optimistic about improving their personal finances by the middle of next year, followed by Indonesians (74%) and Thais (68%).

Vietnam’s total retail sales of consumer goods and services saw a year-on-year increase of 9.4% to more than VND5.1 trillion (US$207.8 million) during January – October, the General Statistics Office said.

About 70 Vietnamese handicraft and gift companies are exhibiting their products at the MEGA Show Hong Kong (China) 2023 which is taking place in the special administrative region from October 21-23.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) is projected to grow between 3.2% and 3.6% this year, the Ministry of Finance said at a meeting of the Steering Committee on Price Management in Hanoi on October 11.

Price control work was effective in the first nine months of this year, with the average consumer price index (CPI) in the period up 3.16% year on year, leaving plenty of room to maintain stability in prices, said Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai.

VOV.VN - China was the largest buyer of Vietnamese pepper over the past nine months of the year, with its purchasing volume increasing by nearly fourfold, according to the Vietnam Pepper Association (VPA).

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of the year grew by 5.33% on-year while the consumer price index (CPI) in September soared by 1.08% compared to the previous month, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The United States imported 33,728 tonnes of Vietnamese pepper worth US$135.23 million in the first eight months of the year, becoming the largest consumer of the Vietnamese product in the world, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on September 12 said that Vietnam wants to join world-leading retailers like Walmart in forming comprehensive inclusive sustainable ecosystems with long-term commitment to benefit sharing in the consumer goods supply chain.

VOV.VN - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and GreenYellow Smart Solutions Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Green Yellow), have signed a loan agreement of up to US$13.8 million for rooftop photovoltaic (PV) solar systems in a bid to help increase the supply of clean and affordable energy for commercial and industrial consumers based in Vietnam.