TIẾNG VIỆT Vietnamese enterprises invest over $458 million abroad in 11 months
Bich Phuong
Monday | 12/02/2019 17:40
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Vietnamese businesses invested $458.8 million in 31 foreign markets in the first 11 months of 2019, according to report from the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency.
Of the investment amount, $353.8 million was invested in 148 new projects, while $105 million was injected to 29 underway ones.
Australia was the biggest receiver of investment capital from Vietnam at $141.3 million, accounting for 30.8 percent of the total, followed by the US, Spain and Cambodia.
Retail and wholesale was the most attractive sector for Vietnamese investors in 11 months, which attracted 25.8 percent of the total capital the firms invested abroad.
Meanwhile, agro-forestry-fisheries ranked second with a 14.3 percent share, and IT came third with 13.1 percent, according to the agency.
