The country experienced a noticeable fall of registered foreign directinvestment (FDI) capital, while seeing an increase in the capitaldisbursement, in the first five months of this year.

During the period, overall FDI poured into the country reached 4.29 billion USD, equalling 78 percent of last year’s figure.

The foreign funds have so far disbursed 4.95 billion USD, increasing 7.6 percent year on year.

The industry of manufactured and processed goods received the largestforeign investment worth 3.15 billion USD with 269 new projectsregistered. The real estate sector claimed the second place, reeling in461.5 million USD.

The Republic of Korea still topped47 countries and territories investing in Vietnam with 1.1 billion USDspent in the reviewed period. The UK’s Virgin Islands, Turkey and Japanhave come closely behind.

Domestically speaking, HoChi Minh City has attracted 983.5 million USD from foreigners, leadingothers in the five-month FDI. It was followed closely by southern DongNai province, with 948.7 million USD, and northern Hai Phong city, with319.3 million USD.

Regionally, the south-eastern area took thelead in FDI attraction, enjoying 2.29 billion USD, or 53.3 percent ofthe total registered investment capital, while the Central Highlands gotthe least amount of FDI, with 17.43 million USD, or 0.4 percent of thetotal.-VNA