Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

As Vietnam fights to beat back raging inflation, many of its small and mid-sized businesses - disadvantaged even in good times - are struggling to survive the battle.

Vietnam's government should maintain a tight monetary and fiscal policy, including higher interest rates and tougher credit, until the currently "intolerable" inflation rate is less than 10 percent, the World Bank said.

Researchers at the University of Economics and Business in Hanoi have warned that inflation could hit a whopping 18.2 percent if the government does not firmly carry out its policies.

John Hendra, coordinateur permanent de l'Organisation des Nations unies (ONU) au Vietnam, a rencontré le 10 mai à Hanoi le milieu de la presse afin de partager son point de vue sur les problèmes de développement du Vietnam après cinq années de fonctions dans ce pays.

John Hendra, coordinateur permanent des Nations unies au Vietnam, a rencontré mardi à Hanoi le milieu de la presse afin de partager son point de vue sur les problèmes de développement du Vietnam après cinq années de fonctions dans ce pays.

La Banque centrale du Vietnam (SBV) a une nouvelle fois augmenté ses taux directeurs vendredi, signe selon les experts de la volonté du pays communiste de lutter contre l'inflation quitte à renoncer à quelques points de croissance.

Hanoi - Lien Ngoc Ha has some difficult decisions to make. She only has 100,000 dong (about 5 dollars) to feed her husband and her two sons each day.

Retail petrol prices rose by VND2, 000 per litre on March 29, with A92 petrol increasing to VND21, 300 per litre.

HANOI - Vietnam's inflation rose to a two-year high in March, official estimates showed on Thursday, as the government shifts from a long-standing focus on growth towards stabilising its troubled economy.

Vietnam's government is set to raise electricity prices by 15 percent on Tuesday, at a time when the population is already struggling with a soaring cost of living.

HANOI—Vietnam's government raised prices of gasoline and other fuel products by as much as 24%, an industry official said, likely complicating the task of taming what may be Asia's most difficult inflationary problem.

HANOI — Economists on Friday welcomed a larger than expected rise in a key Vietnamese interest rate as part of efforts to curb rising prices, but said that more needs to be done to boost the economy.

Vietnam celebrates its lunar new year holiday this week and the focus when markets reopen on Tuesday, February 8, will be the possibility of a dong devaluation and inflation, which holds the key to interest rates.

HANOI - Vietnam is aiming to cap inflation below 3.5% for the first half of next year and below 7% for full-year 2011, state media said Monday, citing central bank Gov. Nguyen Van Giau.

Hanoi - Vietnam's consumer price index rose 1.98 per cent from November to December to the highest level in 22 months, the government said Friday.