Ramos invites Bill Gates

Ramos invites Bill Gates

MANILA (AFP): Philippine President Fidel Ramos will invite
Microsoft chief Bill Gates to invest in the Philippines when he
meets him later this year, local newspapers reported here
Saturday.

"In November, I shall also meet in Seattle, Bill Gates of
Microsoft to talk on I.T. (information technology) and get him
into the Philippines as a major I.T. player," Ramos was quoted as
saying.

He made the remarks during a long-distance teleconference to a
government symposium on information technology being held in the
central Philippines.

Ramos did not specify on what occasion he would meet Gates.
The President is scheduled to visit Canada in November for the
annual leaders meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) forum.