HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s gross domestic product growth in the second quarter quickened to 7.72%, compared with an expansion of 5.05% in the first quarter, government data released on Wednesday showed.
The Southeast Asian country’s GDP in the first half of the year grew 6.42% from a year earlier, the General Statistics Office said in a report.
(Reporting by Khanh Vu; Editing by Ed Davies)