{"id":45294,"date":"1999-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-01-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9431ea52-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-01-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-01-26T00:00:00","slug":"9431ea62-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9431ea62-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"RP businessmen eye Saipan visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Filipino businessmen is planning to visit Saipan to explore the possibility of doing business in the Northern Marianas amid local government&#8217;s plan to establish free trade economic zones, according to Philippine Consul Julia Heidemann.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to organize a return visit of Filipino businessmen here. But I have to discuss this with the Saipanese first. If they can organize (a trade mission), then we can do it,&#8221; she said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The expected Filipino businessmen represent diverse industries from the country. A trade exhibit showcasing Philippine-made products will be among the highlights of their trade mission.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 people from the Saipan business community and the local legislature met with top Philippine government and chamber of commerce officials and toured the Carmelray Industrial Park in Laguna last February 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Heidemann said that it was while visiting the Carmelray Industrial Park, a known economic processing zone area, where the local businessmen picked up the idea of putting up its own free trade economic zone.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed hopes the local community will welcome the Filipino businessmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Filipino businessmen is planning to visit Saipan to explore the possibility of doing business in the Northern Marianas amid local government&#8217;s plan to establish free trade economic zones, according to Philippine Consul Julia Heidemann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}