According to the Foreign Investment Agency, the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) granted investment licenses to 66 overseas projects with a total registered capital of $1.217 billion, 6 projects more than in the same period last year.
By September Vietnam had 736 overseas projects worth more than $15 billion, mostly in the field of agro-forestry (14), wholesale, retail and repair business (11), processing industry (8), and mineral exploration (8).
Vietnam has invested $3.8 billion in Laos, $2.6 billion in Cambodia, $306 million in the US and $87 million in Singapore.
