HANOI, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Vietnam attracted an estimated foreign investment of nearly 16.8 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of this year, down 12.3 percent year on year, according to the country’s Ministry of Planning and Investment on Monday.
During the period, Vietnam licensed 1,135 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with a total registered capital of over 6.35 billion dollars, unchang