{"id":236372,"date":"2019-11-02T21:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T01:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236372"},"modified":"2019-11-02T21:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T01:39:55","slug":"ph-verifying-reported-harassment-of-fil-crewed-ship-near-panatag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/02\/ph-verifying-reported-harassment-of-fil-crewed-ship-near-panatag\/","title":{"rendered":"PH verifying reported harassment of Fil-crewed ship near Panatag"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187845\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWe will verify the facts of the incident, then relevant offices will make the appropriate recommendations,\u201d DFA Assistant Secretary Eduardo Menez told reporters in a text message on Saturday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/a.138804356274407\/675777269243777\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is verifying reports that a Chinese \u201cnaval warship\u201d harassed a Filipino-crewed ship near Scarborough Shoal or Panatag on September 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will verify the facts of the incident, then relevant offices will make the appropriate recommendations,\u201d DFA Assistant Secretary Eduardo Menez told reporters in a text message on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made following an exclusive from Rappler, reporting that the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Green Aura, whose captain was a Philippine Navy reservist, was ordered to stay away from the shoal as it sailed towards its planned route to Longkou, China.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Chinese vessel moved in the direction of Green Aura\u2019s path to block its passage.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberian-flagged ship\u2019s captain, identified as Manolo Ebora, a Filipino, was quoted as saying that the Chinese ship violated navigation rules for intending to cut Green Aura\u2019s course and tailing it afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough or Panatag Shoal is 124 nautical miles from the coast of Zambales province and is within the Philippines&#8217; 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is verifying reports that a Chinese \u201cnaval warship\u201d harassed a Filipino-crewed ship near &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236372","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\/236372","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=236372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236373,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236372\/revisions\/236373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}