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Vietnam's biggest online shopping day kicks off, over 360,000 products on sale

Xinhua, December 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

The biggest online shopping day of Vietnam, or Online Friday 2016, kicked off on Friday with over 360,000 products on sale.

According to Vietnam e-Commerce and Information Technology Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the organizer, as many as 364,496 products by 3,530 companies are participating on the event.

Among the figure, there are 18,812 promotions with the biggest sale up to 50 percent, said the ministry.

The total revenue of Online Friday 2016 is expected to hit 1 trillion Vietnamese dong (44.84 million U.S. dollars), doubling the figure of 2015 and six times as much as that of the first launch in 2014.

The website of this year's event is forecast to have five million clicks, compared to 2.56 million clicks in 2015. Endit