Hanoi (VNA), Nov. 18 -- Total outbound Vietnamese investment reached 431.7 million USD in the first nine months of this year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment .

The largest share of Vietnamese investment was poured into wholesale and retail sector, and auto and motorbike repairs with 110.6 million USD, accounting for 25.6 percent of the total.

Coming second was science-technology with 83.4 million USD), followed by agriculture-forestry-fishery (64.1 million USD) and real estate (56.9 million USD).

Among the 30 countries and territories where Vietnamese investors landed during the period, Australia was the largest recipient with 140.6 million USD, making up 32.6 percent of the sum....