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  • PH hosts first ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit

    PH hosts first ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit

    Aims to introduce, build IB cases in the region As the promotion of Inclusive Business (IB) remains a key deliverable of the Philippines for its chairmanship of the ASEAN 2017, the Board of Investments (BOI), the industry development and investments promotion arm of the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)…
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  • PH hosts first ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit

    PH hosts first ASEAN Inclusive Business Summit

    Aims to introduce, build IB cases in the region As the promotion of Inclusive Business (IB) remains a key deliverable of the Philippines for its chairmanship of the ASEAN 2017, the Board of Investments (BOI), the industry development and investments promotion arm of the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)…
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  • Trade chief on artificial intelligence: let’s make it work for BPO

    Trade chief on artificial intelligence: let’s make it work for BPO

    Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez at a business processing outsourcing (BPO) center. Lopez stated that BPO jobs needed to be retooled and repositioned in light of artificial intelligence (AI) diminishing 45 to 50% of the industry’s workforce. MAKATI—There is a way to make artificial intelligence (AI) work for the sector of the…
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  • DTI provides Cavite’s first advisory and mentoring services program

    DTI provides Cavite’s first advisory and mentoring services program

    The Department of Trade and Industry, in partnership with the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO), launched the Building Enterprises through Advisory and Mentoring Services (BEAMS) Project in General Trias, Cavite on 31 August 2017. Cavite is the second province in CALABARZON to kick off BEAMS this year after Quezon. The…
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  • Lopez: PH innovation, entrep ecosystem now

    Lopez: PH innovation, entrep ecosystem now

    Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez underscored the need to develop an inclusive, innovation-led industrial and entrepreneurship ecosystem that will upgrade the competitiveness of the Philippine (PH) agri-industry, manufacturing and services sectors, thus improving productivity, output generation, and later on income of every Filipino. This after the…
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  • PH eyes strengthened economic relations with Sweden

    PH eyes strengthened economic relations with Sweden

    As the Government of Sweden reopens its embassy in Manila, the Philippines, through its Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) eyes strengthened economic relations with Sweden. “We have seen Sweden’s interest in the country as we welcome their largest inbound delegation to Manila with over 70 delegates from various Swedish…
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  • ASEAN confab showcases wide-ranging support for women-led start-ups

    ASEAN confab showcases wide-ranging support for women-led start-ups

    A heartening development awaits participants in a regional conference dubbed as ASEAN Women’s Business Conference which showcases key initiatives that are women-led across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) providing wide-ranging support for start-up companies headed by women entrepreneurs. The occasion will also serve as an introduction of the…
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  • PH hosts biggest gathering of economic officials from ASEAN and its trade partner countries

    PH hosts biggest gathering of economic officials from ASEAN and its trade partner countries

    Following the successful hosting of the ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Retreat in March, the Philippines (PH), as current Chair of ASEAN 2017, stands ready to host once again a series of high-level meetings among economic ministers of the 10 Member States of ASEAN and the region’s trade partners. As the biggest…
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  • Aurora province takes spotlight as PHL’s ‘City of Charm’ at Caexpo 2017

    Aurora province takes spotlight as PHL’s ‘City of Charm’ at Caexpo 2017

    Business Mirror 29 August 2017 THE Province of Aurora will take center stage as the Philippines’s “City of Charm” in the 14th China-Asean Expo (Caexpo) in Nanning, Guangxi, China, from September 15 to 17. As part of the Philippine delegation led by the Department of Trade and Industry-Center for International…
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  • PH leads launching of ASEAN Young Entrepreneurs Association

    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) brings together a distinguished group of people whose mix of youthful energy and business know-how can help transform industries across the entire ASEAN region. The ASEAN Young Entrepreneurs Carnival, slated 5 September 2017 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City,…
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