HANOI, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Foreign direct investment inflow
into Vietnam in 2012 is estimated to have dipped 4.9 percent to
$10.46 billion from a year earlier, the government said.
New foreign investment pledges, plus the funds added to
existing projects, between January and December fell 22.4
percent to a combined $12.72 billion, the government said in a
statement issued late on Monday.
![The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University’s hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, another claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled this week. The decision came after attorneys representing ex-players accused Northwestern’s lawyers of using confidential information obtained in the ex-players’ lawsuit to help craft their strategy in the separate Fitzgerald case. A lawyer for Northwestern denied that accusation in court this week. But as a consequence, the cases are now on far different tracks than they were just a few weeks […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ctc-l-wildcats-hazing-lawsuit_181443613.jpg?w=525 "The hot-button lawsuits related to Northwestern University’s hazing scandal — some alleging widespread abuse on the football team, another claiming ex-coach Pat Fitzgerald was wrongly fired — will be consolidated for the time being, a Cook County judge ruled this week. The decision came after attorneys representing ex-players accused Northwestern’s lawyers of using confidential information obtained in the ex-players’ lawsuit to help craft their strategy in the separate Fitzgerald case. A lawyer for Northwestern denied that accusation in court this week. But as a consequence, the cases are now on far different tracks than they were just a few weeks […]")