{"id":200816,"date":"2019-02-04T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=200816"},"modified":"2019-02-04T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T04:19:26","slug":"no-official-report-yet-on-rescue-hub-in-wps-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/04\/no-official-report-yet-on-rescue-hub-in-wps-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"No official report yet on rescue hub in WPS: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186030\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44204133_747260168942371_3408273599843270656_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186030\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44204133_747260168942371_3408273599843270656_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44204133_747260168942371_3408273599843270656_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/44204133_747260168942371_3408273599843270656_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This as Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said after Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. agreed that the Philippines should protest the establishment of a maritime rescue hub once verified by relevant offices in the country. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/pcb.747260462275675\/747260165609038\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said that there is no official report yet on the maritime rescue center allegedly being constructed on Kagitingan Reef in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).<\/p>\n<p>This as Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said after Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. agreed that the Philippines should protest the establishment of a maritime rescue hub once verified by relevant offices in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith respect to that, there has been no official report. When I mentioned\u2014or that issue cropped up, I don\u2019t know if there is now,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo, meanwhile, assured that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) continues to monitor the contested waters for possible violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are monitoring the area with respect to any violation &#8212; is that your question? That\u2019s the job of the National Security Council and the AFP,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo also stressed the government continues to \u201csilently\u201d file protests against China for constructing establishments in the Philippine-claimed sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Locsin) said also that we have made 19 to 20 diplomatic protests silently. Because it goes in the way of diplomacy,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 29, Chinese-state run news agency Xinhua reported that maritime rescue center is being constructed in the WPS \u201cto better protect navigation and transport safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines and Chinese governments are currently facing a maritime dispute over the WPS.<\/p>\n<p>However, ties between the two countries improved after President Rodrigo R. Dutert set aside the international arbitration court\u2019s verdict that trashed China\u2019s nine-dash line map to give way to friendly bilateral talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday said that there is no official report yet on the maritime rescue center allegedly being constructed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":186030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200816","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=200816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}