Vietnam's GDP growth slows as global demand weighs on exports

STORY: Vietnam's GDP growth slows as global demand weighs on exports DATELINE: March 30, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:45 LOCATION: Hanoi CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various scenes of the container terminal in Vietnam 2. various scenes of the industrial zones 3. various scenes of business banking 4. various scenes of supermarket 5. various scenes of wind farms STORYLINE: Vietnam's economy in the first quarter grew at the second lowest rate in the past 12 years as weakening global demand weighed on exports, official data showed on Wednesday. According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), the growth of gross domestic product was 3.32 percent in the January-March period, down from 5.92 percent in the fourth quarter and 5.03 percent in the first quarter last year. The GSO said that processing and manufacturing, with a 35.47-percent weight of the basket, dipped 0.4 percent from a year earlier, while services, the largest category, rose 6.79 percent and agriculture gained 2.52 percent. Besides, the data showed tha