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The prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, announced a series of measures designed to constrain rapid credit growth and force state-owned enterprises and commercial banks to be cautious about how they spend or lend money. On the foreign policy front, Vietnam scored something of a coup when Indonesia said that it would take up Vietnam's goal of establishing multi-lateral talks on territorial claims over the South China Sea. The State Bank of Vietnam (the central bank) has adjusted the dong's peg to the US dollar from D18,932:US$1 to D20,693:US$1, and it has also tightened monetary policy by putting up two key interest rates. Consumer price inflation rose by 12.3% year on year in February, compared with 12.2% in January. Electricity prices were increased by 15% on March 1st. This followed an increase in subsidised retail fuel prices on February 24th, when petrol prices rose by 17% and diesel prices were set 24% higher. In February the merchandise trade deficit expanded to US$950m from a revised estimate of US$877m in January.
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