The famous potato fries from the Philippines officially opened yesterday its first Potato Corner store in Singapore at 313 Somerset Mall in Orchard Road. Gracing the event is Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez, Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Joseph Del Mar Yap, DTI-PTIC Commercial Counsellor Cynthia Ricafort, Potato Corner CEO Jose Magsaysay Jr and other top executives continue reading : DTI joins the opening of first Potato Corner in Singapore

Commercial Counsellor Cynthia Ricafort of the Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Singapore delivered a presentation on Business and Investment Opportunities in the Philippines at the #FinanciallyLiteratePH event held recently in Tampines, Singapore. With about 150 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in attendance, Ms. Ricafort talked about the franchising opportunities and business trends in the Philippines, continue reading : DTI presents Business and Investment Opportunities talk to OFWs in Singapore

Ms Ann Robeniol, DTI Philippines Assistant Secretary for Industry Development and Trade Policy Group and the Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM) Chair for the Philippines, recently provided a lecture on the progress of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. The RCEP 22nd round of negotiations was held in continue reading : DTI Asec Robeniol speaks at the 17th Asean Lecture RCEP series – ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez and Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Joseph Del Mar Yap, on separate occasions, visited the Official Philippine Pavilion at the Food and Hotel Asia (FHA) 2018 show and gave their support to Filipino food entrepreneurs.   The Official Philippine Pavilion, through the support of the DTI Export Marketing Bureau and DTI Singapore, continue reading : Filipino Food Companies exhibited at FHA 2018

  The Philippines continues to attract direct foreign investments, as President Rodrigo Duterte secured investment pledges worth US$185.7 million during a business forum organized by the DTI Philippine Trade & Investment Centre – Singapore on the sidelines of this year’s ASEAN Summit in Singapore on Saturday, April 28.   The President and some of his continue reading : DTI Singapore gathers $185.7M of investment pledges during Pres. Duterte’s Visit

SINGAPORE – The Philippines (PH) continues to be an investment destination for Singaporean companies as USD 185.7 million-worth of investment pledges providing 1,920 job opportunities were signed at the sidelines of the 32nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on 28 April 2018. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reported that the investment continue reading : PH receives USD 185.7M-worth of investments from SG

The Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI), through the Philippine Trade & investment Centre (PTIC)-Singapore, recently held a seminar on online registration for single proprietorship at the investment boot camp hosted by The Global Filipino Investors (TGFI) in Singapore. PTIC-Singapore was represented by Commercial Counsellor Cynthia Ricafort who shared with over 800 attendees. In February continue reading : DTI conducts online registration learning session in Singapore

In photo: (L-R) Philip Pang, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) Director for Government Relations; Philippine Commercial Counsellor Glenn Peñaranda; Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Antonio Morales; Victor Mills, SICC Chief Executive.  Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Philippine Trade & Investment Centre (PTIC) – Singapore Commercial Counsellor Glenn Peñaranda talks about the Philippines’ hosting of continue reading : PH and SG push for greater trade cooperation within ASEAN

From left to right (seated in 1st row are the high-level officials): Philippine Software Industry Association president Jonathan de Luzuriaga, Philippine Ambassador to Singapore Antonio Morales, DICT Undersecretary Monchito Ibrahim and Philippine Commercial Counsellor for Singapore Glenn Peñaranda. The Philippines participated in CommunicAsia in May 2017 at the Marina Bay Sands & Convention Centre in continue reading : PH at CommunicAsia Singapore 2017

The Department of Trade and Industry’s Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) in Singapore is working closely with four Filipinos from Cebu who are presently based in Singapore, to officially introduce Geopik, an app that will revolutionize the postal system in the Philippines. Filipinos Francisco Liwa, Ivan Lacuesta, Rodessa Padrigano and John Ryan Loyloy utilize continue reading : PH startup to revolutionize postal system