{"id":234246,"date":"2019-10-11T23:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234246"},"modified":"2019-10-11T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:23:05","slug":"ph-safe-destination-for-foreigners-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/11\/ph-safe-destination-for-foreigners-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"PH safe destination for foreigners: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_207213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207213\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207213\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/45707062_758497277818660_2350937726280269824_n-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Oo naman, siyempre\u00a0safe.\u00a0Kaya lang\u00a0accidents happen,\u00a0kung minsan nalulusutan ka rin\u00a0(Of course it&#8217;s safe. It&#8217;s just that accidents happen),&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a press briefing. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/a.397841807217544\/758497261151995\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday assured that the Philippines is a safe destination for visiting foreigners amid the recent kidnapping of a British national and his wife in Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Oo naman, siyempre<\/em>\u00a0safe.<em>\u00a0Kaya lang<\/em>\u00a0accidents happen,\u00a0<em>kung minsan nalulusutan ka rin<\/em>\u00a0(Of course it&#8217;s safe. It&#8217;s just that accidents happen),&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Defending the imposition of martial law in Mindanao, Panelo said there would be a high incidence of crime and kidnapping if the martial rule is not in place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given\u00a0<em>na<\/em>\u00a0two years<em>\u00a0na iyong<\/em>\u00a0martial law\u00a0<em>doon at mukhang iyong<\/em>\u00a0number of crimes\u00a0<em>halos wala, maliban dito sa bago ngayon \u2013 ibig sabihin<\/em>\u00a0effective (Given that martial law has been there for two years and it seems the number of crimes there is almost none, except this recent one&#8211; that means it&#8217;s effective),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can just imagine<em>\u00a0kung walang<\/em>\u00a0martial law,\u00a0<em>baka hindi lang iyon<\/em>\u00a0(if there is no martial law, maybe there would be more [crimes]),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo assured that authorities in Mindanao are doing their best to protect the residents there.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Hyrons and his wife were abducted at their beach resort in Zamboanga del Sur last week but no group has claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Zamboanga police said two of the suspects reportedly checked in at the resort, pointed a gun at them, and dragged them to the other side of the beach were motorized boats were waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday assured that the Philippines is a safe destination for visiting foreigners amid the recent kidnapping of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":207213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234246","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\/234246","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=234246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234247,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234246\/revisions\/234247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}