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USA's Philip Morris invests over 300m dollars in Kazakh economy in 10 years [Source: BBC Monitoring Central Asia] 

The Philip Morris Kazakhstan and Central Asia company (Philip Morris's subsidiary) has invested 323m dollars in the country's economy over the past 10 years.

"Those are mainly projects in the food and agricultural sectors," says a press release issued today by the Kazakh president's press service following the president's meeting with the company's head.

[Kazakh President] Nursultan Nazarbayev and the company's managing director, (?Il Vu Chong), discussed the company's new investment projects in the country, the press release says.

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