Clark Freeport Zone and the Metro Clark Area benefited from the sound economic programs of the Philippine government despite the financial crisis last year as the state-owned firm bucked the odds and turned the crisis into investment and development opportunities.
President Benigno Ricafort, during the 17th anniversary celebrations of Clark Development Corp. (CDC), said the economic programs of President Gloria Arroyo gave foreign and local investors, not only in Clark, but also in the entire country, the confidence in doing business in the Philippines.
Ricafort claims that with President Arroyo’s continued support from the investors, 175 contracts were formalized last year of which 71 are new connoting confidence in the existing business climate inside Clark Freeport Zone.
Ricafort added that among the biggest contracts in terms of investment include a diverse mixture of locators from different countries they are HLD Clark Steel Co., Inc. (China); Community Gaming and Amusement Network Inc. (Philippines), Australian International Training and Management Group Pty. Ltd (Australian), and Siccion Holdings, Inc. (Philippines) to name a few.
With these new investors, their total committed investments would amount to more than P5.9 billion with a minimum employment commitment of 2,700 for their first year of operations, not to mention the signing of agreement with a foreign semi-conductor firm on March 2010 that it would invest more or less P22 billion for the next five years, Ricafort said. –Mark Roxas, Manila Times
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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