HANOI, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) - Vietnam attracted 27.26 billion U.S. dollars in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 10 months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 1.9 percent, the country's General Statistics Office has reported.

Specifically, Vietnam licensed 2,743 new FDI projects with a total registered capital of 15.23 billion dollars, up 1.4 percent year on year in terms of the number of projects and down 2.5 percent in terms of registered capital.

Among the 76 countries and territories with licensed investment projects in Vietnam during the cited period, Singapore was the largest source of newly registered capital with 4.98 billion dollars, followed by South Korea with 2.08 billion dollars and China with 2.07 billion dollars, said the office.

Of the 19.58 billion dollars of FDI disbursed in the reporting period, 80.7 percent was for the processing and manufacturing sector, 8 percent for the real estate, and 4.1 percent for the electricity, gas, hot water, steam and air-conditioner production and distribution.

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