In the first 7 months of 2018, total FDI-including newly-registered, additional FDI and capital contribution-reached US$22.94 billion, up 4.6% year on year.

Vietnam’s economy has the highest ratio of exports against the gross domestic product (GDP) in the world.

Vietnamese businesses have invested more than US$279.6 million in projects abroad during the first seven months of 2018, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).

The real estate sector in the central province of Quang Ngai has strong potential to grow, thanks to its geographic attributes but still-low property prices that appeal to investors.

Foreign investors in Vietnam disbursed a total of US$9.85 billion from begining of this year to July 20, up 8.8% from a year earlier, the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment said.

Vietnam’s property market was attractive to foreign investors in the first two quarters of this year, with bustling merge and acquisition (M&A) activities, according to real estate firm Savills Vietnam.

Financial institutes all report that foreign investors keep pouring capital into the Vietnamese stock market to take over Vietnamese profitable businesses.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese businesses have poured US$238.33 million in 81 new  ventures abroad and an additional US$41.3 million into 21 existing overseas projects during the first seven months of this year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Japan poured US$6.88 billion, 30% of the total foreign direct investment (FDI), into Vietnam in the first seven months of 2018, the biggest figure among 96 countries and territories investing here.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception in Hanoi on July 25 for investors who are planning to pour capital into a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fueled power project in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.