‘WE NEED TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES FIRST’ President Marcos and first lady Liza Araneta
Marcos leave Japan on Dec. 18 after the President joined the 50th Asean-Japan Friendship Summit.
— Malacañang file photo
MANILA,Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s trips have resulted in the generation of more than 200,000 job opportunities.
Malacañang gave number in a statement.
“President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has brought home not only billions of pesos worth of investment pledges in the Philippines, but has also brought over 200,000 job opportunities for the Filipino people from his official foreign trips from the last quarter of 2022 until 2023,” it said.
Following reports of the President’s travel fund rising by 58 percent in the 2024 National Budget, Palace cited data from Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
DTI broke down the job opportunities per country as follows:
2022
Indonesia, September 4 to 6: 7,100 jobs
Singapore, September 6 to 7: 14,932 jobs
New York, September 18 to 24: 98,000
Thailand, November 16 to 19: 5,500 jobs
Belgium, December 11 to 14: 6,480 jobs
Netherlands, December 15 to 17: 730 jobs (This was a DTI-led travel.)
2023
China, January 3 to 5: 32,722 jobs
Japan, February 8 to 12: 24,000 jobs
United States, April 30 to May 4: 6,386 jobs
Malaysia, July 25 to 27: 8,365 jobs
Singapore, September 14 to 17: 450 jobs
United States, November 14 to 17: 2,550 jobs
Japan, December 15 to 18: 15,750 jobs