{"id":160677,"date":"2018-04-19T04:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T08:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=160677"},"modified":"2025-03-09T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:31:18","slug":"dutertes-visit-to-hongkong-not-a-public-stunt-says-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/19\/dutertes-visit-to-hongkong-not-a-public-stunt-says-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte\u2019s visit to Hongkong not a public stunt, says lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lawmaker downplayed Magdalo party-list Representative Gary Alejano&#8217;s criticism against President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s recent visit to Hongkong.<\/p>\n<p>It can be recalled that Alejano, a staunch critic of the president said that the latter\u2019s trip to Hongkong achieved nothing that would benefit the country, and that Duterte giving a speech to Filipino domestic helpers and dining in a Filipino fast food chain were merely publicity stunts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lipitor online <a href=\"https:\/\/simpsonmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lipitor.html\">simpsonmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lipitor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In response to this, ACTS OFW party-list Representative John Bertiz III said that Duterte went to visit Filipinos who remit a huge amount of money to the country.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lexapro online <a href=\"https:\/\/simpsonmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lexapro.html\">simpsonmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/lexapro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the good information of our colleagues in the government, Hong Kong remits US0 million every year, which is total of P43 million and that is part of the budget of the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy super kamagra online <a href=\"https:\/\/simpsonmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/super-kamagra.html\">simpsonmedical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/super-kamagra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\nHe added that thousands of Overseas Filipino Workers\u2019s (OFW) have waited long for the opportunity to see the president.<br \/>\n&#8220;Almost 290,000 OFWs in Hong Kong have waited long to see our beloved President because they know that this administration has a heart and compassion,\u201d Bertiz said.<br \/>\n<strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 04\/ 19 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawmaker downplayed Magdalo party-list Representative Gary Alejano&#8217;s criticism against President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s recent visit to Hongkong. It can be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287872,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160677\/revisions\/287872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}