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  • Improve business climate –DTI Asec tells LGUs

    Improve business climate –DTI Asec tells LGUs

    DTI Asst. Secretary Demphna Du-Naga (2nd from right) receives a certificate of appreciation and token from DTI-6 Asst. Regional Director (extreme left) Ermelinda P. Pollentes, Phil. Chamber of Commerce and Industry-Western Visayas Chapter President Donna Rose Ratilla and RDC VI Regional Investment and Competitiveness Coordinating Committee Chairperson Ma. Luisa Segovia…
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  • Caraga’s First Fabrication Laboratory (FABLAB) launched

    Caraga’s First Fabrication Laboratory (FABLAB) launched

    Butuan City- Caraga Fabrication Laboratory housed at Caraga State University was launched on 30 October 2018.  It is now open to serve the public, the micro, small and medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in particular. Funded thru DTI’s Shared Service Facility (SSF) program amounting to P12 million, Caraga’s Fabrication Laboratory is a…
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  • DTI, BOI, and FPI to hold Manufacturing Summit 2018

    DTI, BOI, and FPI to hold Manufacturing Summit 2018

    MAKATI CITY – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Board of Investments (BOI), the country’s primary industry development and lead investment promotion agency, in partnership with the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI), the Voice of Philippine Industry, will hold the Manufacturing Summit 2018 on 22-23 November at…
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  • CHINESE STEEL COMPANY TO LOCATE IN MINDANAO, TO CREATE 50,000 JOBS – DTI

    CHINESE STEEL COMPANY TO LOCATE IN MINDANAO, TO CREATE 50,000 JOBS – DTI

    MAKATI – Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon Lopez confirmed that Chinese steel company Panhua Group Co., Ltd. (Panhua) will set up a 305-hectare integrated steel manufacturing plant at the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate of the Misamis Oriental-Special Economic Zone (PIEMO-SEZ). At the sidelines of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the…
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  • SLOVENIA TRADE MISSION TO ARRIVE IN PH IN MARCH–DTI

    SLOVENIA TRADE MISSION TO ARRIVE IN PH IN MARCH–DTI

    Slovenia energy company looking for PH partners Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said a business and trade mission from Slovenia is set to arrive in the Philippines (PH) in March 2019 to broaden trade ties between the two countries. “The Philippines considers the European Union,…
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  • 20 Cavite MSEs take the next step to business growth through DTI’s KAPATID Mentor Me Program

    20 Cavite MSEs take the next step to business growth through DTI’s KAPATID Mentor Me Program

    Twenty Cavite micro and small enterprises (MSEs) graduates from the KAPATID Mentor ME Program of the Department of Trade and Industry Region IV-A in partnership with the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc.- Go Negosyo on 15 November 2018 in General Trias City, Cavite. KMME is a coaching and mentoring program…
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  • SSF cooperators undergo coaching and mentoring

    SSF cooperators undergo coaching and mentoring

    Mentor Mario Tajanlangit (left) coaches a cooperator (center). DTI-6 STIDS Romel Amihan assists in documenting the discussion. (right) Aimed at strengthening and providing direction for the advancement of its Shared Service Facilities (SSF) in Western Visayas, the DTI VI piloted the coaching and mentoring of cooperators as one of the…
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  • Philippines Hosts International Training for PAC Members

    Philippines Hosts International Training for PAC Members

      Training participants together with the facilitators Dr. David Crucefix (middle) and Mr. Brahim Houla (4th from left) and PAB secretariat Dir. Ernani Dionisio and Ms. Ma. Juanita Carpio, pose with their certificates, marking the completion of their three-day training. The Philippines through the Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB) hosted a…
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  • DTI gears up for the Logistics Services Philippines Conference and Exhibition— Opening opportunities for job creation in the logistics services sector

    DTI gears up for the Logistics Services Philippines Conference and Exhibition— Opening opportunities for job creation in the logistics services sector

    The Department of Trade and Industry- Competitiveness Bureau, in partnership with the Export Marketing Bureau and Board of Investments is gearing up for the first Logistics Services Philippines Conference and Exhibition from December 6 to 7 that will gather stakeholders from the logistics services sector, government, and development partners to…
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  • Excessive red tape adversely affects the ease and cost of doing business in logistics services industry

    Excessive red tape adversely affects the ease and cost of doing business in logistics services industry

    The DTI-Competitiveness Bureau and stakeholders from the logistics services sector jointly identified the regulations and procedures that adversely affect the ease and cost of doing business for the logistics services providers, which in turn pull down the competitiveness of the sector. “We invited industry leaders and together we tackled the…
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