VOV.VN - Vietnamese lychees grown in Hai Duong province’s Thanh Ha district which is renowned for its juicy fruit domestically hit the shelves in Singapore on June 3.

Commercial banks have made public the sale of unsecured consumer debt for the first time in the country.

VOV.VN - About 50 tonnes of fresh Vietnamese lychees grown in Bac Giang province have arrived in Japan and they are now available for sale at local supermarkets.

The average consumer price index (CPI) in the first four months of this year inched up 0.89% from the same period last year, the lowest rise for the first four months of a year since 2016 and clearing the way for the country to achieve its goal of keeping inflation at below 4% for the year.

Vietnamese consumers are more and more interested in locally-made products and place greater trust in local retail brands, market researcher Nielsen has said.

Vietnamese agricultural products have won the taste of Chinese consumers in recent years due to their quality as well as improvement in businesses’ supply capacity, a trade promotion official has said.

A Vietnamese person consumed an average of 1.3 liters of wine and beer per month in 2020, higher than the 0.9 liter in 2018, despite the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the General Statistics Office.

The average consumer price index (CPI) in the first four months of this year inched up 0.89% from the same period last year, the lowest rise for the period since 2016 and clearing the way for the country to achieve its goal of keeping inflation at below 4% for the year as a whole.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF)'s Price Management Department will actively set up scenarios for managing prices of essential goods according to the market performance, but still ensuring inflation control as targeted, said director of the department Nguyen Anh Tuan.

While the expansion of the consumer price index (CPI), seen as a gauge for inflation, remained under control, growing prices of input materials and heating up economic activities are factors that could increase inflationary pressure on the remaining months of the year.