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Arangkada Forum 2017

    On 14 September 2017 the JFC will hold the Sixth Arangkada Philippines Forum to Implement the Ten-Point Agenda

    Singaporean companies looks for business opportunities in the Philippines

      MANILA, 03 August 2017 – The Philippines-Singapore Business Council (PSBC), led by Chairman Guillermo Luchangco, welcomes the Singaporean business delegation, headed by Mr. Loh Chin Hua, at the 2017 PSBC Conference and Business Matching Session today at the Fairmont Hotel, Makati City. The conference highlights the bilateral trade opportunities between the two countries, and presents the current investment climate in the Philippines. In addition, invited leaders from government agencies share the Duterte administration’s socio-economic agenda and infrastructure development plans aimed at increasing Philippine competitiveness and promote inclusive and sustainable growth. Through these sessions, PSBC hopes to encourage the Singaporean investors to consider the Philippines as its next investment destination.

      We need to feed, feed, feed

        5 August 2017 – We have been reading and hearing a lot about the Duterte administration’s “build, build, build” infrastructure program. The vision is to give the nation a golden age of infrastructure development that will not only address perennial and worsening traffic congestion, but, more importantly, build a much better transportation and logistics system across the archipelago that will spur more jobs, more trade and more investments. This reminds me of former finance secretary Roberto de Ocampo’s call at one of his Arangkada Forum presentations during the previous administration, when he said that the problem is simply “infrastructure, infrastructure, and infrastructure.”