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Chula Sukmanop, head of Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor Office, has high hopes for the special economic zone. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kenya Akama and Takaki Kashiwabara)

FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), a special economic zone that sits on 13 million hectares along the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, will continue to be competitive even as the new government plans a minimum wage increase amid slowing economic growth, officials overseeing its investment plans insist.

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