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Vietnam H1 industrial output seen up 16.5 pct

Tue Jul 1, 2008 8:30am IST
 
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 HANOI, July 1 (Reuters) - Vietnam estimated on Tuesday that
its industrial output in the first half of 2008 rose 16.5
percent from the same period last year.
 The General Statistics Office said industrial output in the
January-June period would reach 326.6 trillion dong ($20
billion).
 Industrial output (percentage change from a year earlier):
            June 2008  June 2007   Jan-June 2008  Jan-June
07 Output              17.1      19.5       16.5        16.9 Of
which: State                6.6      15.3        6.9        
8.5 Non-state           22.7      20.9       22.3        20.5
Foreign-invested    18.8      21.1       17.4        19.3
($1=16,517 dong)
 (Reporting by Nguyen Nhat Lam; Editing by Alan Raybould)

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