August: Consumer price index increased by 0.6 percent

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Among 10 groups of goods and service, CPI of the food & drink services group went up 0.8 percent. Three groups whose CPI increased more than the general average level include garments, hats & caps and footwear. Household appliances and utensils increased by 0.7 percent; medicine and medical services went up 0.7 percent; six remaining groups whose CPI are lower than the general average level include drinks and cigarettes (0.4%), tourism (0.3%), education (0.2%), other goods and services (0.3%), traffic – post and telecommunication (0.2%), housing, electricity, water, fuels and building materials (0.5%).

The CPI of August 2007 rose by 6.1% compared with December 2006 and 8.2% compared with August 2006.

Gold price index in August rose by 1.15% compared with July and 4.47% compared with the same period. USD price index of August increased by 0.12% compared with July and 0.75% compared with the same period.

Reported by Thanh Tam, Translated by THKC