After three years of decline, global foreign direct investment increased this year, with developing nations gaining a forty percent surge in FDI, according to a UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2005. China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico and Singapore were the top developing FDI recipients, unsurprisingly. While India is gaining, it still lags far behind. UNCTAD thinks that Africa could do a lot more to attract FDI. And this is an odd headline: “Malaysia warms to extraterrestrial investment.”