Vietnam revises '12 foreign direct investment data from loss to gain

Earlier in December, the agency announced that the country had attracted US$12.7 billion in FDI for the year, down by 18 percent year-on-year due to the global economic slowdown.

According to the new report, up to 1,287 new foreign-invested projects were granted licences with a total registered capital of US$8.6 billion in 2012 or equivalent to 71.2 percent of the total figure.

The report showed that Japan remained Vietnam's largest foreign investor with US$5.59 billion, 34.2 percent of the total FDI registered in the country. It was followed by Taiwan (US$2.6 billion) and Singapore (US$1.9 billion). The country's other major sources of investment included South Korea, Samoa, British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.

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