{"id":84627,"date":"2017-01-11T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84627"},"modified":"2017-01-11T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T08:25:15","slug":"peza-to-meet-pm-abes-biz-delegation-in-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/11\/peza-to-meet-pm-abes-biz-delegation-in-phl\/","title":{"rendered":"PEZA to meet PM Abe\u2019s biz delegation in PHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_84628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84628\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Shinz\u014d_Abe_April_2015_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84628\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Shinz\u014d_Abe_April_2015_2.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA)  to meet PM Abe\u2019s biz delegation in Philippines (Photo by U.S. Embassy Tokyo [CC0])\" width=\"366\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Shinz\u014d_Abe_April_2015_2.jpg 366w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Shinz\u014d_Abe_April_2015_2-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) to meet PM Abe\u2019s biz delegation in Philippines<br \/>(Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AShinz%C5%8D_Abe_April_2015_(2).jpg\">U.S. Embassy Tokyo [CC0]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA\u2014Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) Director General Charito Plaza said she will be meeting a top-level business delegation from Japan on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The business executives will be part of the delegation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his two-day official visit to the Philippines from Jan. 12 to 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prime Minister of Japan is coming on Jan. 12 and 13. He will have a roundtable discussion in Malaca\u00f1ang. I will be one of those who will present about PEZA because the Prime Minister will be accompanied by top Japanese corporations also,\u201d Plaza said.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese business delegates will also visit Davao and meet with Filipino companies to explore opportunities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey expressed that they are very interested to invest in the Philippines,\u201d the PEZA chief said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the country\u2019s young labor force is an advantage for the Philippines and very attractive to Japanese companies as Japan has an ageing population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile ours, we are producing one million a year working-age Filipinos; half of that are college graduates,\u201d Plaza noted.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-percent of locators in PEZA economic zones nationwide are Japanese investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) Director General Charito Plaza said she will be meeting a top-level business delegation from Japan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13369,13368,5732],"class_list":["post-84627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-charito-plaza","tag-philippine-economic-zone-authority","tag-shinzo-abe","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84627","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}