Consumer price index (CPI) rises by 0.19 percent

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    Particularly, retail sales over the past six months reached VND23.4555 trillion, accounting for 41 percent according to plan targets, up 26.3 percent over the same period.

    Among ten types of goods and services, six saw a higher increase in CPI than the average one as follows: cigarettes (up 0.91 percent); garment, hats and footwear (up 0.35 percent); housing, electricity, water, fuel and building materials (up 1.55 percent); household appliances (up 0.21 percent); medicine and health care services (up 0.3 percent); culture, recreation and travel services (up 1.08 percent) and other goods and services (up 1.16 percent).

Reported by Thanh Tam, Translated by Duy Minh