The government's target is 5 percent for the full year

Inflation was 0.54 percent in May, the highest month-on-month increase since 2012

Transport and construction materials prices saw the sharpest rise as the consumer price index rose by 0.33 per cent...

There are also 'overwhelming' risks, particularly mounting fiscal pressures, the bank says

  During the first three months of 2016, the highest consumer price increases were in the health sector and in education

Inflation is expected to hit 5 percent this year, compared to 0.63 percent last year

Interest rates are expected to rise by 1-2 percentage points this year   

Due to gasoline price cuts, transport services' CPI declined sharply by 2.82 percent

The inflation average was the lowest since Vietnam started calculating it in 2006

Consumer prices grew only 0.58 percent over the past 11 months

  Low inflation gives Vietnam's central bank room for monetary easing, according to ADB

  China miscalculates the so-called GDP deflator, a broad measure of prices in the economy.

The inflation in the highest in June the past four years

A rate cut of 50 basis points may spur lending, HSBC says.

Consumers may suspend spending to wait for further price drops, causing companies to scale down.