Vietnam Oct industrial output slows to 15.8 pct yr/yr

HANOI, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Vietnam estimated on Tuesday annual industrial output growth slowed marginally in the first 10 months of 2008 to 15.8 percent compared with a rise of 16 percent in the first nine months. Output in October rose 15.4 percent from the same year-earlier month, slightly faster than an annual rise of 15.2 percent last month, the General Statistics Office said in its monthly report. "Industrial production during the first 10 months of 2008 faced many difficulties from the inflation storm leading to higher input cost," Nguyen Van Lieu, deputy general director of the office, said in the monthly report. Industrial output (percentage change from a year earlier): Oct 2008 Oct 2007 Jan-Oct 08 Jan-Oct 07 Output 15.4 16.7 15.8 17.0 Of which: State 3.6 11.4 5.5 10.3 Non-state 22.1 19.0 21.1 20.8 Foreign-invested 17.5 17.7 17.8 18.2 (Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; editing by Neil Fullick) .

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