Chết rồi, CPI tháng 1 tang 1.36%

The country's consumer price index (CPI) in January 2010 increased by 1.36 percent, lower than that of December 2009 of 1.38 percent. The group of goods and other services showed the strongest rise of 2.24 percent, followed by the group of restaurant and eating and drinking services with an increase of 2.11 percent, in which the group of foodstuff up 4.41 percent.
Most of the remaining groups saw a lower CPI increase such as the group of medicines and health care services, education group with a rise of 0.27 percent, meanwhile group of post and telecommunication posted a fall of 0.11 percent against that of previous month.
In January, the gold price and US dollar price continued dropping by 2.94 percent and 0.11 percent respectively against the last month of 2009.
Noticeably, the Mekong Delta region witnessed the highest level of CPI growth rate in all over the countries at 1.58 percent, while the lowest CPI belonged to the North-western region.