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The list includes general SEZs and the more specific free trade zones and free ports, managed either by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority or held privately. As of April 30, 2016, there were 345 operating economic zones throughout the Philippines.
Website. www .portcitycolombo .lk. Port City Colombo, ( Sinhala: කොළඹ වරාය නගරය, romanised: Koḷam̆ba Warāya Nagaraya) is a multi-services special economic zone located in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is currently under construction on reclaimed land adjacent to the Galle Face Green. The land reclamation work had been ...
Burger King's 1000th store in Asia also opened in this country (Gwacheon) in January 2013. [64] Saudi Arabia: 1992 [65] The Olayan Group: برغر كينغ (in Arabic) Halal [66] Singapore: 1982: Burger King Singapore Pte. Ltd: Halal [67] First BK Whopper Bar in Asia [68] Sri Lanka: 2013: Softlogic Restaurants Pvt Ltd (a fully owned subsidiary ...
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority ( PEZA ), formerly known as the Foreign Trade Zone Authority ( FTZA) and Export Processing Zone Authority ( EPZA ), is a Philippine government agency attached to the Department of Trade and Industry . It was created to help promote investments in the export-oriented manufacturing industry into the country ...
The Colombo Plan is a regional intergovernmental organization that began operations on 1 July 1951. The organization was conceived at an international conference, The Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs held in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950, and was attended by the finance ministers of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ceylon, Pakistan and New Zealand, and the ...
On September 12, 20123m President Benigno Aquino III issued Administrative Order No. 29, designating the maritime areas on the western side of the Philippine archipelago and within the Philippine EEZ as the West Philippine Sea and mandating the use of that designation by all departments, subdivisions, agencies and instrumentalities of the Philippine government. [6]
The world's exclusive economic zones by boundary types and EEZ types. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
A special economic zone ( SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. SEZs are located within a country's national borders, and their aims include increasing trade balance, employment, increased investment, job creation and effective administration. To encourage businesses to set up in the ...