Hanoi (VNA) - The State Bank of Vietnam set the daily reference exchange rate at 23,136 VND per USD on January 15, up 4 VND from the previous day. With the current trading band of +/-3 percent, the ceiling rate applied to commercial banks during the day is 23,829 VND/USD and the floor rate, 22,442 VND/USD. The opening hour rates at some commercial banks slightly fluctuated. At 8:25 am, Vietcombank listed the buying rate at 23,950 VND/USD and the selling rate at 23,160 VND/USD, both unchanged from January 14. BIDV listed the buying rate at 22,980 VND/USD, up 10 VND, and the selling rate at 23,160 VND/USD, down 10 VND. Meanwhile, Vietinbank added 5 VND to both rates, at 22,923 VND/USD (buying) and 23,166 VND/USD (selling)./. … [Read more...] about Reference exchange rate up 4 VND on January 15
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HCMC office buildings report surging vacancy rates
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US Ambassador makes moon cake to celebrate diplomatic ties with Vietnam
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Over 4,000 delegates to 13th National Party Congress to be tested for COVID-19
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Pork prices fall as Vietnam increases imports
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The imported pork and declining meat consumption have pushed pork prices down, helping stabilise the consumer price index. This month pork has been sold at the Hoc Mon wholesale market in Ho Chi Minh City for around 72,000 VND (3.17 USD) per kilogramme, 8,000 VND down from previous months, according to its management. Le Xuan Huy, deputy general director of the CP Livestock Joint Stock Company, said hog prices are down because of increased imports of both frozen pork and live pigs as well as lower demand. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the first seven months of this year Vietnam imported more than 93,248 tonnes of pork, mainly from Canada, Germany, Poland, Brazil, the US, Spain, and Russia, 223 percent up from the same period in 2019. The ministry licensed imports of pigs on the hoof from Thailand from mid-June. As of August 36 companies registered to quarantine more than 4.7 million … [Read more...] about Pork prices fall as Vietnam increases imports