{"id":45495,"date":"2015-03-24T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45495"},"modified":"2015-03-24T13:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:15:26","slug":"drilon-to-attend-lee-kuan-yews-state-funeral-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/24\/drilon-to-attend-lee-kuan-yews-state-funeral-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilon to attend Lee Kuan Yew\u2019s state funeral in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39245\" style=\"width: 1163px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/franklin-drilon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39245\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/franklin-drilon.jpg\" alt=\"Senate President Franklin Drilon opens the First Session of the Senate for the Year 2015 on Tuesday (Jan. 20, 2015) at the Senate Building in Pasay City. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)\" width=\"1163\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/franklin-drilon.jpg 1163w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/franklin-drilon-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1163px) 100vw, 1163px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Franklin Drilon opens the First Session of the Senate for the Year 2015 on Tuesday (Jan. 20, 2015) at the Senate Building in Pasay City. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Senate President Franklin M. Drilon will represent President Benigno Aquino III, the government and the Filipino people at the state funeral of Singapore\u2019s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who died on Monday at the age of 91.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has asked me to represent him and the Filipino people as we join the nation of Singapore in this time of grieving for the loss of a great Asian leader, former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew,\u201d said Drilon.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the state funeral will be held on March 29, 2015, at the Singapore University Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>Drilon will be joined by Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario and Finance Secretary Cesar V. Purisima.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate leader said that the Filipino people are deeply affected by Lee\u2019s death, who, he added, inspired many leaders of various nations, including himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLee Kuan Yew showed us that resolute political will can positively transform nations and societies and uplift them from the shackles of poverty,\u201d said Drilon.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has been recognized by the world for transforming Singapore into an economically stable nation. He served as Singapore\u2019s prime minister for 31 years, the longest serving prime minister, from 1959 to 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Senate President Franklin M. Drilon will represent President Benigno Aquino III, the government and the Filipino people at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495","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=45495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}