{"id":30923,"date":"2014-11-07T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30923"},"modified":"2014-11-07T19:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T11:49:55","slug":"2015-apec-meetings-might-be-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/07\/2015-apec-meetings-might-be-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 APEC meetings might be postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15501\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/apec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15501\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/apec.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"240\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Following the recent \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the Iloilo Convention Center (ICC), Iloilo City Rep. Jerry Tre\u00f1as expressed concern that this may lead to the postponement of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIloilo has been chosen to host the APEC ministerial meetings in 2015 because of the significant achievements our province has made for the past years with assistance from the national government,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is unfortunate, however, that these developments could anytime be reversed because of the malicious and baseless allegations regarding the construction of the Iloilo Convention Center,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement with Iloilo City Mayor Jed Mabilog and Iloilo-second district Rep. Arcadio Gorriceta, Tre\u00f1as asked the camp of Binay \u201cnot to block the significant growth Iloilo is now experiencing because of the various development and infrastructure projects made possible under the term of President Aquino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to the opposition to spare Iloilo from all these political bickering. We have made enough progress in the past years due to the intervention of our Ilonggo leader, Senate President Franklin Drilon,\u201d the three said.<\/p>\n<p>They added, \u201cThe completion of the Iloilo Convention Center will be the realization of our dream to recapture Iloilo\u2019s premier position as the \u2018Queen City of the South\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also noted that the convention facility would be able to contribute to the promotion of tourism in Iloilo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Following the recent \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the Iloilo Convention Center (ICC), Iloilo City Rep. Jerry Tre\u00f1as expressed concern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8535],"class_list":["post-30923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apec-summit","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923","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=30923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}