US auto sales jumped 13.4 percent in 2012 to their best performance since the crash of 2008, as better economic times, hot new models and the need to replace aging vehicles drew consumers to showrooms.

Vietnam’s consumer price index (CPI) this year was at 18.12 per cent, exceeding the target of 18 per cent set by the government early last month.

In November, the State Bank announced a series of policy adjustments to regulate inflation, plus monetary and gold markets.

Copper and tin prices nailed historic highs this week, and gold smashed above $1,400 for the first time in history in a sustained record-breaking run fuelled by hopes of economic recovery.

LONDON, October 15, 2010 - Gold, tin, rubber and cotton hit record peaks this week, aided by keen demand, the tumbling dollar and strengthening hopes of new monetary easing measures from the US Federal Reserve, analysts said.

Sustainable development is an inevitable growth trend for Vietnam. The Communist Party of Vietnam’s guidelines and the Vietnamese government’s policies have stressed the priority goal of sustainable development in national socio-economic development strategies.

Foreign companies can now hold as much as 50 per cent in joint ventures with Vietnamese companies to provide telecoms service in the strictly controlled telecoms sector.Deputy minister of Post and Telematics, Mai Liem Truc, last week confirmed that under the bilateral trade agreement (BTA) between Vietnam and the US, foreign companies would be permitted to form joint ventures with local partners to provide value-added services from December 12, Internet services from late next year, and basic telecoms and mobile phone services from December 2005.