#January

PSNews - Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long sent a letter of commendation to the Lai Chau Provincial Police Department, praising the police department for dismantling a criminal group cheating people out of their property in cyberspace, on January 5th, 2024.

Total retail sales of goods and revenue from consumer services in January were estimated at 524.1 trillion VND (21.47 billion USD), up 8.1% year-on-year, as consumers have been on the mood to shop for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Export activities recorded encouraging figures in January, and more growth is on the way, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

The VN Index, Viet Nam’s benchmark stock index, grew 12.8 per cent in January, as it joined the top three best performers in the world in the first month of 2018, just behind Argentina (16.21 per cent) and Nigeria (15.95 per cent).

As of January 20, 175 new projects were licenced with a total investment of US$1.244 billion, a rise of 23 percent over the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency.

Vietnam ran a trade deficit of US$100 million in January, after enjoying a trade surplus of billions of dollars in 2016.