The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) chairs this year’s ASEAN Committee on Business and Investment Promotion (CBIP). The CBIP is an inter-agency committee, created to assist the ASEAN-National Organizing Council (NOC) in the Philippines’ hosting of ASEAN 2017 as prescribed in Administrative Order No.48 s. 2016. The CBIP is responsible for engaging the international business continue reading : THE ASEAN 2017 BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a region of significant economic and strategic importance, located in the heart of Asia and centred on important trading routes between Europe and Asia and the Pacific. It is composed of 10 Southeast Asian nations. The five founding members, which established ASEAN in 1967 were Indonesia, Malaysia, continue reading : ASEAN 2017: THE PHILIPPINE CHAIRMANSHIP