Hanoi, Jan. 5 -- Vietnam's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose an average of 3.31% in 2025, meeting the target set by the National Assembly, Director General of the Finance Ministry's National Statistics Office (NSO) Nguyen Thi Huong told a press conference in Hanoi on January 5. The NSO reported that December's CPI climbed 0.19% from November and 3.48% from a year earlier. Fourth-quarter average CPI went up 3.44% year-on-year. Prices advanced in 11 months and fell in one versus the prior month, driven by seasonal demand spikes during holidays and Lunar New Year, global swings in rice, cooking gas and fuel prices, plus domestic shifts in pork, electricity, construction materials and housing rents. Huong attributed these results to the concert...