{"id":204542,"date":"2019-02-28T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=204542"},"modified":"2019-02-28T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:18:32","slug":"malaysian-pm-to-visit-ph-march-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/28\/malaysian-pm-to-visit-ph-march-6-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian PM to visit PH March 6-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204545\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204545\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/52759590_10156196786818652_6652739736882380800_o-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Malaysian leader made official visits to the country in 1987 and 1994 during his previous term as prime minister. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TunDrMahathir\/photos\/a.300561673651\/10156196786813652\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TunDrMahathir\/\">Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad will visit the Philippines to meet with President Rodrigo Duterte on March 6-7, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the department, Mahathir will embark on an official visit at the invitation of the Chief Executive himself.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Duterte will officially welcome the Malaysian leader at a ceremony in Malaca\u00f1ang Palace on March 7.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After this, the two leaders will hold a bilateral meeting to discuss the Philippine-Malaysian cooperation in the political, economic, and people-to-people spheres, and exchange views on topics of mutual importance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mahathir is also scheduled to meet with Senate President Vicente Sotto III and House of Representatives Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The DFA said this would be Mahathir\u2019s first visit to the Philippines since he assumed his position as Malaysia&#8217;s seventh Prime Minister last year and reciprocates Duterte&#8217;s visit to Kuala Lumpur in July 2018.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Malaysian leader made official visits to the country in 1987 and 1994 during his previous term as prime minister.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad will visit the Philippines to meet with President Rodrigo Duterte on March 6-7, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":204545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204542","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}