VOV.VN - Cathay United Bank of Taiwan (China) has unveiled a strategic business plan aimed at expansion into the consumer finance sector in the Vietnamese market.

Economists at a workshop in Hanoi on January 4 shared the view that despite a host of difficulties forecast for 2024, inflation would not be a big issue for Vietnam in the year.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in 2023 is estimated to increase 2.04% year-on-year, according to the Hanoi Statistics Office.

Vietnam’s high-value manufacturing is expected to grow, with the government intent on increasing manufacturing’s share of the economy from 25% to 30% by 2030 by attracting more high-value manufacturing investment, said the “Strength through Diversification: Opportunities across Asia Pacific” report by Cushman & Wakefield.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded annual growth of 3.25% in the 2023 consumer price index (CPI), while core inflation increased by 4.16%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said on December 29.

VOV.VN - Vietnam earned more than US$2.1 billion from exporting durians between January – December 2023, representing an increase of 580.3% year on year, reported the General Department of Customs.

Vietnamese auto maker VinFast has announced its participation in Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, one of the biggest tech events in the world, taking place from January 9 - 12, 2024 in Las Vegas city, the US.

The Vietnam Trade Office in Algeria on December 22 coordinated with the Carrefour supermarket system in Algeria to organise an activity to introduce and promote Vietnamese products at the Carrefour Hypermarket in the City Center Mall in the capital of Algiers.

Vietnam ranked second in Asia-Pacific in the rate of consumers’ frequency of art performance attendance inside and outside the country in the January-December period at 41%, only after India at 45%, according to the latest Green Shoots Radar report released by Visa, the world's leading electronic payment firm.

The offering of promotions with attractive discounts, even 100%, at the national scale by producers and distributors is expected to help boost the circulation of goods and encourage people to shop more.