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                    [Title] => SunPower speeds up wafer project
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SunPower has approached the Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PhilEXIM) for a 100-percent guarantee for a dollar-denominated loan amounting to $200 million.


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                    [Title] => PhilEximbank to guarantee loans of SunPower Phils
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Export Import Bank (PhilEximbank) has agreed to guarantee up to $200 million worth of loans for the $300-million solar wafer cells manufacturing project of SunPower Philippines Manufacturing Ltd., an affiliate of US-based SunPower Corp. 


Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho revealed that the PhilEximbank board of directors agreed to extend a loan guarantee for SunPower, a Brittish-owned company that has registered with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) as a pioneering project. 


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Sunpower Philippines Manufacturing Ltd. (SPML), whose parent company is the Cayman Islands-based Sunpower Corp., will manufacture solar wafer cells at its plant in  Laguna.


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                    [Title] => US investment mission keen on RP
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A US investment group  called Patton Boggs Investment Mission met yesterday with Trade and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II to explore investment  opportunities in the country, particularly in the information technology sector.


Roxas said members of the 10th Patton Boggs Investment Mission have expressed willingness to undertake long-term investments in the country.


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                    [Title] => US investment mission keen on RP
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Roxas said members of the 10th Patton Boggs Investment Mission have expressed willingness to undertake long-term investments in the country.


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                    [Title] => PEZA approves P537-M project
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PEZA Director General Lilia de Lima said CPSI had applied for pioneer status
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SunPower has approached the Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PhilEXIM) for a 100-percent guarantee for a dollar-denominated loan amounting to $200 million.


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PEZA Director General Lilia de Lima said CPSI had applied for pioneer status
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