A total of 17 countries and regions involving 79 companies have invested in Myanmar's Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), official report quoted the economic zone authorities as reporting Sunday.
Myanmar has offered 20 sectors of economic activities to local and foreign investors in the country' s first biggest Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project being implemented on the outskirts of Yangon by a Myanmar-Japan joint venture, according to the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development Tuesday.
Japan has been stepping up its economic activities in Myanmar since the beginning of this year, especially after the visit of Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, a highest-ranking Japanese official to have come to Myanmar since a civilian government is installed in the Southeast Asian nation.