Consumers choose fruits at a supermarket (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - The consumer price index (CPI) in Ho Chi Minh City inched up 0.001 percent in April against March, according to the city’s Statistics Office.
The average CPI for the first four months of 2021 rose 1.4 percent compared to last year’s average.
Among the groups of products and services in the
CPI basket, increases were seen in beverages and tobacco 0.37 percent; garment-textile, headwear and footwear 0.06 percent; equipment and household appliances 0.14 percent; and transportation 0.99 percent.
Meanwhile, restaurant and catering services fell 0.02 percent against the previous month.
The group of housing, electricity, water, and construction materials saw a contraction of 0.29 percent. This included reductions of 0.08 percent in electricity prices, 3.36 percent in clean water price, and 4.87 percent in cooking gas and fuel prices due to adjustments in petrol prices.
Ca Mau province will expand high-quality rice material farming by applying
Ca Mau (VNA) - The
high-quality rice material farming, according to Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Thanh Trieu.
Under the province’s planning, local farmers will cultivate rice on an area of some 110,000 ha, with an average yield of 4.7 tonnes per ha by 2025. Ca Mau will strive for a rice output of 520,000 tonnes by 2025, which is expected to then remain stable until 2030.
Trieu said the focus will be sharpened to develop organic rice materials that meet both domestic and international standards as well as promote the value chain of the food.
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25/04/2021 19:14 GMT+7
The Vietnam National Quality Awards 2019-2020 were presented at a ceremony in Hanoi on April 25, honouring 116 companies with remarkable achievements
Vice State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan and representatives from a number of ministries, sectors and businesses attended the event.
The Vietnam National Quality Awards 2019 went to 61 enterprises, while 55 others received the Awards in 2020.
Also at the ceremony, the Global Performance Excellence Awards (GPEA) 2019-2020 were presented to four enterprises: Viglacera Corporation JSC; KIZUNA JV Joint Stock Company, Tan A Production and Trading Company Limited, and Central Power Electronic Measurement Equipment Manufacturing Centre of the Central Power Corporat
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Prime Minister to attend ASEAN leaders’ meeting
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will lead a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to an ASEAN leaders’ meeting to be held at the headquarters of the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia from April 23-24.
The attendance will be made at the invitation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, which serves as the current ASEAN Chair, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs./.
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