{"id":219871,"date":"2019-06-22T07:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219871"},"modified":"2019-06-22T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:06:07","slug":"prrd-asks-thai-bizmen-to-invest-more-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/22\/prrd-asks-thai-bizmen-to-invest-more-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD asks Thai bizmen to invest more in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219872\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0-02-06-3a77afa084751b6847d170311011456c743e5d84b7ca8985576bf9482d8c6ea03422518d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219872\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0-02-06-3a77afa084751b6847d170311011456c743e5d84b7ca8985576bf9482d8c6ea03422518d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0-02-06-3a77afa084751b6847d170311011456c743e5d84b7ca8985576bf9482d8c6ea03422518d.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0-02-06-3a77afa084751b6847d170311011456c743e5d84b7ca8985576bf9482d8c6ea03422518d-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: COURTESY CALL. Thai businessmen meet with President Rodrigo Duterte at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Bangkok on Saturday (June 22, 2019). The president invited the businessmen to take advantage of the good investment climate in the country. (PNA photo by Allan Nawal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BANGKOK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday urged Thai businessmen to invest more in the Philippines, citing the uptick in the country&#8217;s economic indicators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invite you to ride on the momentum of Philippine growth story and invest especially in the new industrial destinations of Metro Manila, Pampanga, Clark, Cebu, Bohol, and Davao,\u201d the President said during a courtesy call by at least 20 Thai businessmen at the Waldorf Astoria here.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said the Philippines values the economic partnership with Thailand and that he was \u201cpleased with the current Thai investments in my country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(I) hope that they will continue to increase in the years ahead,\u201d he said, citing such group as Charoen Pokphand Group, which is involved in agro-industrial and aqua-industrial business in the Philippines, and the Erawan Group, which operates the Hop Inn hotels.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte also said he was encouraging the Thai Beverage TCC Group to also do business in the Philippines, especially in real estate and the hotel business.<\/p>\n<p>The President also called on Thai companies to take part in the massive construction activities that the government has started, especially for infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines\u2019 Build, Build, Build is in full swing and you are all welcome to participate. We are making significant headway in transforming the Philippines into a more stable and secure place for investments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said the government&#8217;s \u201csound macroeconomic policies and ongoing reforms\u201d guarantee investors with \u201ca competitive and corruption-free business climate and a highly skilled and fast-learning workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke of the upgrade by Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s of the Philippines credit rating to BBB+ stable, which is just a notch away from &#8216;A&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday urged Thai businessmen to invest more in the Philippines, citing the uptick in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":219872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-allan-nawal","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219873,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219871\/revisions\/219873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}