{"id":210479,"date":"2019-04-17T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=210479"},"modified":"2019-04-17T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:06:04","slug":"airport-cops-assist-penniless-canadian-at-naia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/17\/airport-cops-assist-penniless-canadian-at-naia\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport cops assist penniless Canadian at NAIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187056\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/naia-terminal-2-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Canadian national, identified as Yusuf Sydow, has been staying at NAIA&#8217;s OFW lounge since April 12, airport police Senior Inspector Nemencio Bawalan told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Wednesday. (PNA File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Authorities from the Airport Police Division (APD) of the Manila International Airport Authority assisted a Canadian national who stayed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for days.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian national, identified as Yusuf Sydow, has been staying at NAIA&#8217;s OFW lounge since April 12, airport police Senior Inspector Nemencio Bawalan told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bawalan said the APD contacted the Canadian Embassy on Tuesday regarding Sydow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The embassy requested us to bring Sydow to their office. We escorted him there today (Wednesday),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bawalan added that they also brought Sydow to a hostel in Makati in the afternoon, so he could stay there while the embassy is arranging his papers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on his passport, his last (entry) to the Philippines was on August 16, 2017. He said he stayed in Surigao, then he went to Manila,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector added, &#8220;He stayed at a hotel. Now he doesn&#8217;t have money to purchase a plane ticket to Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An email forwarded to the PNA desk showed Sydow asking for help from the Canadian government.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, he has been sleeping at the airport&#8217;s chairs for several days. He said in his email that he has no money, and asked for help so he could go back to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Authorities from the Airport Police Division (APD) of the Manila International Airport Authority assisted a Canadian national who stayed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":187056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-cristina-arayata","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210479","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=210479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210480,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210479\/revisions\/210480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}