Official statistics said the country registered US$ 31.068 billion as of September this year.

That was $10.018 billion less than the permitted investment as of July, local media quoted the Directorate of Investment and Companies Registration on Sunday.

The up-date actual foreign investment in 232 projects came from 22 countries and regions.

The previously registered contracted investment in 485 projects came from 32 countries and regions, a reduction of 253 investment projects and 10 investing countries and regions, said a story in Flower News.

The reduction of the investment projects included that of 36 with Thailand, 35 with Singapore, 32 with Britain, 27 with Malaysia, 19 with China, 17 with China's Hong Kong, 13 each with Australia and Canada and 10 with Japan, the sources told the newspaper.

Ten countries out of the previous 32 injected no investment in Burma. They were the United States, Denmark, Switzerland and Bangladesh.

The fall of the investment was also partly due to the fact that some foreign investment projects expired with its designated operating period, while some were halted for various reasons, the sources said.

Despite the total fall of investment and reduction of investment projects, China, China's Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand and Britain continued to stand as the leading foreign investors as of September this year, according to the report.