City to stabilise price of goods

The municipal People’s Committee has approved a plan to stabilise prices and to ensure the supply of essential goods until the end of the year. The plan will provide price stabilisation assistance to eight essential commodities: rice, sugar, cooking oil, red meat, poultry, fruits and vegetables, poultry eggs and processed foods. Reserve stocks of these [...]

Authorities urged to help fight fraud

City and provincial authorities should strengthen inspection of key products to help curb inflation and stimulate consumption, Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang said. Each locality should draw up inspection plans to suit their own areas, Hoang told a two-day conference on anti-trafficking, counterfeit goods and trade fraud which ended yesterday. He asked [...]

Paper prices jump, expensive materials blamed

Paper prices have been increasing rapidly due to increases in material prices. Just over the last two months, the prices of different kinds of paper have increased by 2.5 million dong per ton. Prices jump by 15 percent just within 2 months Nguyen Minh Trung, Director of Vinh Tien Company, a notebook producer, has informed [...]

Diamonds on show in HCM City expo

The fifth exhibition on diamond, jewellery and clocks will take place at the Tan Binh Exhibition and Convention Centre from this Saturday till Tuesday. The HongKong GSSP company will introduce various kinds of swiss-made clocks at the exhibition. Goldsmiths will also take part.

Electronics device market grows

Viet Nam’s consumer electronic device market is projected to be worth around US$4.3 billion in 2010 and is expected to increase to $6.6 billion by 2014, driven by the growing affordability of key products, says a Viet Nam consumer electronics report for the second quarter of 2010. The report, posted by the Companies and Markets [...]

Sales at supermarkets surge through national holidays

Supermarkets boosted their sales by 40-50 percent through the Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day weekend. The Big C Thang Long Supermarket in Hanoi was crowded over the holiday weekend. Co.op Mart and Big C supermarkets were overloaded with buyers for both two days. Nguyen Trong Tuan, director of Big C Thang Long Supermarket [...]

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