Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez and Japan Foreign Affairs Minister Toshimitsu Motegi held a bilateral meeting in Manila on Thursday (Jan. 9) to discuss new areas of expanding the robust bilateral relationship between the Philippines and Japan, the progress of the infrastructure projects under Build, Build, Build program that are being implemented with funding and technical support from Japan, and other fields of economic cooperation.

A delegation from the Department of Finance and the Bureau of Internal Revenue led by Finance Undersecretary Antonette Tionko met with the General Department of Taxation of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Cambodia, represented by Deputy Director General Bun Neary, to discuss and agree on the major provisions in the proposed double taxation agreement between the Philippines and Cambodia. After the meeting, the two parties signed the record of the developments they have agreed upon.

People's Republic of China Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines Huang Xilian paid a courtesy visit to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez on Thursday (December 12) to discuss and reiterate China's commitment to further enhance its bilateral relations with the Philippines.

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez calls on the participants of the first-ever Sulong Pilipinas Agribusiness Summit to think out of the box and come up with bold ideas to help the government wake Philippine agriculture from its stupor and finally transform it into a key growth driver to let the domestic economy accelerate to a full gallop.