WILSON IN PHILIPPINES TO PROMOTE CALIFORNIA.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Philippine President Fidel Ramos and California Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that on Wednesday praised an environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] waste disposal facility that they said is a model for cooperation between their two business communities. The $96 million, zero-emission solid-waste plant, the first in the Philippines, is being built by California and Philippine companies This is a partial list of companies based in the Philippines. Airlines
In a meeting at the presidential palace, Ramos briefed Wilson on investment opportunities in the Philippines and said California business and the Philippines could cooperate in creating more jobs, Ramos' press office said. Wilson praised Philippine reforms that have created an economic turnaround during Ramos' administration, including the deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. of key industries and a peace treaty in September with Muslim rebels that ended a quarter-century insurgency. ``You have done an extraordinary job,'' Ramos' press office quoted Wilson as saying. Wilson said the reforms have made ``a great number of Californians . . . very proud of their Filipino heritage.'' California has one of the highest concentrations of Filipino residents in the United States. The solid-waste plant to employ 250 people is being built by San Diego-based Alliance Bioremediation bi·o·re·me·di·a·tion n. The use of biological agents, such as bacteria or plants, to remove or neutralize contaminants, as in polluted soil or water. and Composting Corp. and Enviro Philippines. The California company said the plant would have byproducts including electricity, fertilizer, hydrogen fuel for vehicles and algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that for food supplements - without any pollution impact on the environment. Wilson said the plant should serve as a model for Philippine-California cooperation in promoting environmental technology, the press office said. The California governor is midway through a 21-day swing through Asia to promote trade that also includes visits to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and China. On several stops he has called for tighter enforcement of intellectual property laws. California's entertainment and computer industries have been major victims of intellectual property piracy in Asia. |
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