Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) rose by 3.48% in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year, mainly fueled by the increasing prices of food in localities directly affected by Typhoon Yagi, and housing and education services, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The monthly average income of Vietnamese labourers in 2023 reached 7.1 million VND (over 291 USD) per person, up 6.9% compared to 2022, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The number of international students studying in Vietnam averagely increased by 8% - 10% per year in the 2018 – 2023 period, the Ministry of Education and Training has reported.

Cambodia exported nearly 20.5 billion USD worth of goods in the first 11 months of 2023, a slight increase of 1.2% year-on-year, according to a report released recently by the General Department of Customs and Excise.

The retail petrol prices rose in the latest adjustment on June 1 by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow into Malaysia is expected to increase, experts have said.

Power generation output and import in 2022 is forecast to hit 275.5 billion kWh, up 7.9 percent year-on-year, Vice Director of the National Load Dispatch Centre (NLDC) Nguyen Quoc Trung reported at a conference on January 10.

Kasikornbank (KBank), the fourth largest lender by assets of Thailand, predicted the baht will continue to appreciate against the US dollar in the next few months, following brisk gains in January.

Cambodia’s exports increased 17 percent year-on-year to reach 7.7 billion USD in the first nine months of 2017, according to Director General of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce Nguon Meng Tech.

Shares rose on both local exchanges on May 19, boosted by big gains for brokerage and energy companies.

Indonesian police on December 30 forescast that terrorist threat may escalate in the country in 2017 as many militants remain at large.

Export earnings from timber and wooden furniture reached 7.3 billion USD in 2016, a year-on-year rise of 1 percent, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

More than nine million foreign tourists visited Vietnam in the first 11 months of 2016, up 25.5 percent from the same period last year and above the initial target of 8.5 million arrivals for 2016, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

Ford reported sales rose by 14 percent year-on-year in October to 2,430 units, its best-ever monthly numbers.

Vietnam spent 5.84 billion USD importing 13.92 million tonnes of steel and iron products in the first nine months of the year, the General Department of Customs’ statistics revealed

Shares rose for a second day on October 19 on the two exchanges as investors were optimistic about the market outlook and earnings prospects of listed companies.

Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City in the first half of this year rose 3 percent year-on-year to 2.1 billion USD.

Vietnamese shares gained slightly on November 20 as investors bet property companies will benefit from a stronger real estate markets over the coming months.