{"id":237348,"date":"2019-11-13T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T01:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237348"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T01:22:58","slug":"dole-warns-ofws-anew-amid-ongoing-hk-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/13\/dole-warns-ofws-anew-amid-ongoing-hk-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"DOLE warns OFWs anew amid ongoing HK protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237349\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/960px-Kwai_Tsing_Container_Terminals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237349\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/960px-Kwai_Tsing_Container_Terminals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/960px-Kwai_Tsing_Container_Terminals.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/960px-Kwai_Tsing_Container_Terminals-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/960px-Kwai_Tsing_Container_Terminals-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Hong Kong (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=4412581\">Photo By Baycrest\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; As mass actions in Hong Kong continue, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday urged overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) anew to stay away from areas where protests are held.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Follow the advisory to avoid joining protest actions, do not wear white or black clothes, and stay at home after work,&#8221; DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III said.<\/p>\n<p>Bello issued the advisory as violence is imminent from pro-democracy protests in the special administrative region.<\/p>\n<p>For months, anti-government protests have rocked Hong Kong. Police authorities have described the situation as being on the brink of a total breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said there is no advisory yet from the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Hong Kong to impose a deployment ban.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No word yet (on deployment ban),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Government data shows that there are some 180,000 OFWs in Hong Kong, majority of them are working as household service workers.<\/p>\n<p>Protests started in June against plans to allow extradition to mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; As mass actions in Hong Kong continue, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Wednesday urged overseas Filipino &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":237349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348","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=237348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237350,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237348\/revisions\/237350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}