Horizon Lake View Hotel, Nay Pyi Taw
March 20, 2017

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte met with the executives of various Filipino companies operating in Myanmar during a courtesy call at the Horizon Lake View Resort in the administrative capital of Nay Pyi Taw.

These include the top business executives from Liwayway Marketing Corporation, Myanmar Liwayway Food Industry, Ltd., SL Agritech Corporation, Waterstone, Manila Water Co. Ltd., United Beauty Palace Myanmar, Universal Robina Corporation (URC) Myanmar Co. Ltd., Cosmic Customer Care (Cherry Mobile Myanmar), and Great Irrawaddy Telecom (ComWorks).

According to Philippine Ambassador to Myanmar Alex Chua, the Philippines ranked as Myanmar’s 16th biggest investor in 2016. Apart from the said companies, PHINMA Education and Filipino clothing brands Bench and Penshoppe also entered the Myanmar market.

President Duterte is on a two-day official visit to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar from March 19-20, 2017.

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