Ninh Thuan leads the country in FDI attraction

Hanoi (VNA) - Southern central Ninh Thuan province is leading the country in terms of FDI inflow as it attracted 16.8 percent, or 9.79 billion USD, of the total foreign investment capital into the country in the first ten months of 2008.

The figure does not include the capital of seven oil and gas exploration
projects, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).

Following Ninh Thuan are southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province with 9.3
billion USD and Ho Chi Minh City with 8 billion USD.

Foreign investors poured a total of 59.3 billion USD into new projects in
the country over the past 10 months.

The country has also signed with international donors agreements on
Official Development Assistance (ODA) provision worth more than 3.1 billion
USD, including 2.9 billion USD in loans and 206 million USD in grants.
The MPI reported that close to 1.6 billion USD in ODA capital had
been disbursed in the January-October period of this year.-Enditem