Myanmar tops poor nations' FDI league as China cash flows in

JAKARTA -- Myanmar attracted the most foreign direct investment of any of the world's so-called "least developed countries" in 2017, even as the nation's reputation plummeted over its forced expulsion of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.

The $4.3 billion worth of realized FDI that went into the resource-rich Southeast Asian country put it on top of the global economy's bottom division of 47 nations, according to a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.