Nearly $10bln of foreign investment in 5 months

Specifically, more than 1000 FDI projects were granted investment certificates with registered capital of over 4.6 billion US dollars. The number of projects increased while registered capital saw a 15% drop from the same period last year.

From the beginning of 2018, foreign investors poured an estimated 2.75 billion US dollars to buy shares in companies in Vietnam, a rise of over 50% year on year. Processing and manufacturing industries continued to spearhead FDI attraction.