Three special economic zones gaining steam

Five years after the government established the country’s special economic zones (SEZs), the Phnom Penh SEZ, Sihanoukville II SEZ, and Manhattan SEZ in Svay Rieng province are at last starting to attract more business. According to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), 27 companies in the three zones were given the green light to begin projects in 2010, which is more than four times the number of approved projects in 2009…

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