Yangon – Myanmar attracted 62 million U.S. dollars in foreign investment in the first eight months of this year, the local Weekly Eleven News reported Monday.

The investments came from Thailand with 15 million dollars in hotels and tourism, the United Arab Emirate (UAE) with 41 million dollars in oil and gas sector and China’s Hong Kong with 6 million dollars in manufacturing sector.

In the fiscal year 2008-09 (April-March), four countries injected a total of 984.996 million dollars in Myanmar, nearly six times that of 2007-08 fiscal year.

According to official statistics, total foreign contracted investments in Myanmar hit 15.767 billion dollars in nearly 21 years up to the end of May this year since the country opened to such investment in late 1988.

The foreign investments came from 31 countries and regions in 424 projects, with Thailand ranking first with 7.406 billion dollars, the figures show.

Their investments were respectively injected into 12 economic sectors opened for foreign investment by the government which are electric power, oil and gas, manufacturing, real estate, hotels and tourism, mining, transport and communications, livestock breeding and fisheries, industry, construction, agriculture and services sector.