HANOI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam attracted an estimated foreign investment of 23.74 billion U.S. dollars in the first 10 months of this year, up 1.1 percent year-on-year, the country's General Statistics Office said Friday.

Specifically, Vietnam licensed 1,375 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with total registered capital of 13.02 billion U.S. dollars, down 34.5 percent in quantity but up 11.6 percent in capital year-on-year. In the 10-month period, the country also saw 776 operational FDI projects raise capital of 7.09 billion U.S. dollars in total, up 24.2 percent.

Between January and October, disbursed FDI capital totaled 15.15 billion U.S. dollars, down 4.1 percent year-on-year, said the office, adding that 72.2 percent were for the processing and manufacturing sector.

Among countries and regions with newly licensed investment projects in Vietnam during the period, Singapore was the largest source of registered capital with 5.17 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Japan with 2.43 billion U.S. dollars and China's Hong Kong with 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, said the office. Enditem

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