Foreign investors had poured 1.51 billion USD into Vietnam as of January 20, a 4.1 percent increase over the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
The VSIP industrial zone in Hai Phong (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Foreign investors had poured 1.51 billionUSD into Vietnam as of January 20, a 4.1 percent increase over the sameperiod last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
Forty-seven new projects were granted investment registration certificates,a year-on-year decline of 81.8 percent, while the registered capital topped 1.3billion USD, down 70.3 percent.
Forty-six existing projects registered to add capital totalling 472.2 million USD,up 41.4 percent year-on-year.
Meanwhile, capital contributions and sharespurchases by foreign investors stood at 220.8 million USD, down 58.7 percent.
Foreign investors pumped capital into 14 sectors in the period, with processingand manufacturing holding the lead at nearly 1.54 billion USD, representing 76.4percent of the total.
Real estate ranked second with nearly 179 million USD, followed by transportationand warehousing and agro-forestry-fisheries with 111.9 million USD and 60.4 millionUSD, respectively.
Singapore topped the list of the 33 countries and territories investing in Vietnam,with 680.7 million USD, accounting for 33.8 percent of the total.
China was second with 618 million USD, followedby Hong Kong (China) with 221.3 million USD./.
Foreign investors had poured more than 28.5 billion USD into the Vietnamese market as of December 20, equivalent to 75 percent of the amount in the same period last year.
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The number of foreign direct investment (FDI) enterprises continues to increase in Vietnam, but more are reporting losses. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said FDI firms' contributions were not yet commensurate with the preferential policies given to them.
The southern province of Dong Nai secured 11 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth more than 226 million USD in the first half of January, the highest recorded in the same time in the past five years, according to the provincial management board of industrial parks.
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The industry's performance has been powered by bold investments in modern production lines, enabling Vietnamese firms to produce complicated products which were exclusive to advanced economies.
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This is the second year the magazine has released the ranking, which is based on total revenue and key financial indicators of enterprises from seven countries in the region: Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Cambodia.
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The VSIP industrial zone in Hai Phong (Photo: VNA) 
