VOV.VN - ASEAN Online Sale Day 2021, the biggest online shopping event of all ASEAN consumers, is scheduled to begin at 00.00hrs on August 8 and last through to 24.00hrs on August 24.

The national consumer price index (CPI) in July grew by 0.62% against June and 2.64% year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

July’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) picked up 0.62% month on month and 2.64% against the same month last year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on July 29.

A strategy for developing domestic trade between 2021 and 2030 has been signed off by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh, aiming to raise domestic trade’s proportion in the country’s GDP to 15% - 15.5% in the next 10 years.

Vietnamese Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai has been elected as vice chairperson and rapporteur of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

The economic growth target for this year remains unchanged with two scenarios of 6 percent and 6.5 percent expansion for this year, affirmed Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a regular Government meeting held in Hanoi on July 1.

The consumer price index (CPI) of Hanoi in the first half of 2021 rose by 1.14% against the same period last year, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

Hanoi earned US$7.16 billion from exports in the first half of 2021, up 4.5% year on year, the municipal Statistics Office estimated.

The June consumer price index of Ho Chi Minh City recorded a month-on-month rise of 0.22%, according to the city’s Statistics Office.

VOV.VN - With the consumer price index (CPI) increasing by 1.47% during the first half of the year, the lowest rise since 2016, it remains entirely feasible for the country to keep inflation below 4% this year, said Nguyen Thi Huong, general director of the General Statistics Office (GSO).