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Article: SILICON-BASED FIRMS EXPRESS INTEREST IN PHILIPPINE INVESTMENTS.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- October 31, 2002
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MANILA, Oct 31 Asia Pulse - Malacanang today said the visit of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to Silicon Valley-based firms in California produced positive results, as she convinced business leaders and executives in the world's information technology capital to invest in the Philippines.
In a telephone interview from San Francisco with Malacanang reporters in Manila this afternoon, Press Secretary Ignacio "Toting" Bunye revealed that one of the chief executive officers of Silicon Valley, Richard Swanson, president of Sunpower Corporation, promised to establish a solar cell manufacturing company in the country.
Bunye said the assurance of Swanson to ...