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United States President Joe Biden said the Philippines'   alliance with US and Japan will spur “more jobs, more investments” for Filipinos as Tokyo and Washington — 2 of the world’s major economies — pledge to help fortify Manila’s economic resilience. US President Joe Biden on Instagram

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Katrina Domingo

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<div><span dir="ltr" id="isPasted"></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1712894666312GK6tFQUXAAArwOl.jpeg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">United States President Joe Biden said the Philippines&#x27;   alliance with US and Japan will spur “more jobs, more investments” for Filipinos as Tokyo and Washington — 2 of the world’s major economies — pledge to help fortify Manila’s economic resilience. US President Joe Biden on Instagram</span></span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON, D.C. — Japan and the United States will be helping the Philippines expand its semiconductor industry workforce by granting “world-class training” for students who wish to work in semiconductor supply chains, the leaders of the three countries said on Thursday.</p><p>“We intend to pursue a new semiconductor workforce development initiative, through which students from the Philippines will receive world-class training at leading American and Japanese universities, to help secure our nations’ semiconductor supply chains,” the three countries said in the Joint Vision Statement, released after their trilateral summit at the White House. </p><p>“This initiative complements the expansion of semiconductor investments in the Philippines that would strengthen supply chain resiliency among our three nations,” it read.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/4/11/belgium-at-pilipinas-magtutulungan-sa-semiconductor-industry-2349" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Belgium at Pilipinas magtutulungan sa semiconductor industry</a></div><p>Semiconductors and electronics remain the Philippines’ <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/4/11/philippine-trade-deficit-shrinks-as-external-trade-grows-1259#:~:text=The%20trade%20deficit%2C%20or%20the,billion%20exports%20in%20February%202023." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">top export</a>, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/3/19/us-state-secretary-blinken-visits-semiconductor-facility-in-ph-2234" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US State Secretary Blinken visits semiconductor facility in PH</a></div><p>President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. earlier said that he was keen on developing assembly lines in the Philippines so that high-value electronic products could be assembled in the country instead of the nation just settling for importing parts for these gadgets.</p><div> </div><div><strong>RELATED STORY: </strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JzWimry8a7o?autoplay=1&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Japan and the United States will be helping the Philippines expand its semiconductor industry workforce.</p>

Japan and the United States will be helping the Philippines expand its semiconductor industry workforce.

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Filipino students to get ‘world-class training’ on semiconductors supply chains from Japan, US

Katrina Domingo,

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Published Apr 12, 2024 01:27 PM PHT

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