A meat vendor (L) chops pork meat for a customer at a roadside market in Hanoi on December 26, 2011. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 18.13 percent year-on-year, with food costs the main driver, soaring 24.8 percent, according to the General Statistics Office. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was quoted as saying that controlling inflation will remain one of the top national priorities of the country's socio-economic development plan for 2012 which aim to keep inflation rate below 10 percent. AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH Nam (Photo credit should read HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)
