06-07-2015 The period from 2011 to 2014 witnessed a fluctuation in the unemployment rate of labour force in working age in urban area in the whole country. In 2012, the rate decreased by 11% compared to that of 2011 (3.6%), and then rose back to 3.59% in 2013. Fortunately, in 2014 the figure for whole country fell

03-11-2015 Among 1,350 websites offering e-commerce service in the survey, 765 websites (accounting for 57%) had the operation models of online stores (with add-to-card service); the rest (accounting for 43%) had the operation models for marketing purposes (e.g. introduce products and services that the company provide, not for online trading) Regarding source of investment capital,

28-11-2014 Export value in the first 9 months of 2014 of EU was about $20.2 billion, 3 times higher than import value (~$6.6 billion). In there, German had the highest value including $3.76 billion of export and $1.96 billion of import. In additon, export value in the same period of ASEAN reached $13.9 billion, 1.22 times

31-10-2014 The index of industrial production in June was 99.5%, decreased slightly compared to May’14. The industries that had the highest growth rate were tabacco (+18.6%), and mining (+14.0%).Some industries’ growth rates declined compared to last month, in which the most decreases came from other transportation means (-22.0%), and metal industry (-19.5%). Generally, in the

04-07-2014 In May 2014, Ho Chi Minh City inported a value of USD 2,200.4 million. Among that, non-state business imported USD 1,243.9 million, accounting for 57% of the city’s import value. In comparison with April, the city’s import value showed a little change. Similarly, in the first 5 months of 2014, the import value nearly unchanged in

10-11-2014 Total retail sales of goods and services in Ho Chi Minh City in the first 6 months of 2014 reached VND 54,595 billion, increased by 2.8% and 15.4% respectively compared to last month and the same period of 2013.Some of goods had higher growth rate than last month including household utensils (6%), cars and

11-08-2014 In 5/2014, Vietnam retail sales of goods and services reached 240,272.6 billion VND (about 11.3 million USD), increasing by 0.6% in comparison with last month. By calculating with that number, in the first 5 months of 2014, total of retail sales and services was 1,178,981.9 billion VND (over 55 million USD). To compare with the

14-11-2014 Total exports value of all of the enterprises in June 2014 was estimated to be USD 2,646.4 billion, decreased 1.2% compared to last month, but increased 13.9% compared to the same period last year. In the first 6 months of 2014, exports value reached USD 14,182 billion, rised by 5.7% compared to the same

18-12-2014 Import value of HCMC enterprises in June’14 was estimated to reach USD 2,302 million, deceased by 4.2% compared to the last month and 14.4% compared to the same period of 2013. In the first half of the year, total import value was USD 2,446.3 million, declined 2.2% compared to the same period of last

05-11-2014 HCMC’s Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery production value in the first 6 months of 2014 was VND 6,319.7 billion (actual price), increased by 6% compared with the same period of 2013; in there, agriculture raised by 4.1%, forestry went up by and 54.6%, and fishery increased by 9.1% Agriculture production value reached VND 4,106.8 billion