MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hailed today the move of Texas Instruments Inc. (TI), the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, in choosing the Philippines, specifically the Clark Freeport Zone, as the site of its $1-billion expansion project that would create some 3,000 new jobs for the Filipino people.
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MANILA — In a move to further promote the Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) as an economic haven in the Asia ? Pacific region, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has issued an executive order granting tax and duty incentives to “duly registered business enterprises that will operate in special economic zones to be created by proclamation inside the CFZ.”
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MANILA — Environmental and civil society
groups from around the globe today blasted the Japanese government
for what they view as Japan?s sinister plot to establish waste
colonies in Asia by liberalizing trade in toxic wastes via bilateral
trade and investment treaties.
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MANILA — DoST Secretary Estrella Alabastro announced several initiatives for biotechnology and Philippine R&D, during her talk last April 25 at the Ayala Foundation sponsored Innovation Forum in Makati, MM.