Bangladesh's foreign direct investment, or FDI, in the first eight months of the current 2012- 13 fiscal year ending June surged 10.08 percent, or 87 million U.S. dollars, compared with the same period of the last fiscal year, the central bank data showed Sunday.

The Bangladesh Bank(BB) data showed that in the first eight months of the current 2012-13 fiscal year (July 2012-June 2013), or from last July through February this year, net FDI inflows were recorded at 950 million U.S. dollars against 863 million U.S. dollars in the same period a year earlier.

The bank, however, did not provide any further details on the FDI inflows.

Net FDI inflows in the South Asian country in last 2011-12 fiscal year (July 2011-June 2012) stood at about 1 billion U.S. dollars against 775 million U.S. dollars in the previous 2010-11 fiscal year, the BB data showed. Endi

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