{"id":46835,"date":"2015-04-14T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46835"},"modified":"2015-04-14T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:45:42","slug":"palace-approves-more-planes-ships-for-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/14\/palace-approves-more-planes-ships-for-coast-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace approves more planes, ships for Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11967\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SONNY-HERMINIO-COLOMA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11967\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SONNY-HERMINIO-COLOMA-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr.  (Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as\/Rodolfo Manabat\/Malacanang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SONNY-HERMINIO-COLOMA-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SONNY-HERMINIO-COLOMA-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SONNY-HERMINIO-COLOMA.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. (Photo by Robert Vi\u00f1as\/Rodolfo Manabat\/Malacanang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang has approved the procurement of additional multirole vessels and aircraft to improve the operation capability of the Philippine Coast Guard in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrival of additional assets, which pale in comparison to the size and numbers of the Chinese Coast Guard, will take several years to complete. So it is not meant to match up with them but rather to measure up to the PCG\u2019s mandated tasks under Republic Act No. 9993,\u201d the Philippine Coast Guard Law of 2009,\u201d\u00a0Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma on Monday said.<\/p>\n<p>Coloma made the statement in an email to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>He also added in the statement that the \u201cadditional operational assets\u201d of the Department of Transportation and Communications-attached agency would \u201caddress maritime safety, search-and-rescue and environmental protection concerns not only for the West Philippine Sea but for the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the PCG will \u201coperate within the bounds of international laws that the country has acceded to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on talks about the disputed territories in the West Philippine sea, Coloma said that the command \u201cfully supports the efforts of the government in seeking a diplomatic solution to the disputes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The West Philippine Sea is claimed in part or in whole by the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.<\/p>\n<p>President Aquino, has earlier announced that the country will receive a $184-million soft loan for the PCG\u2019s acquisition of patrol boats from Japan International Cooperation Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang has approved the procurement of additional multirole vessels and aircraft to improve the operation capability of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46835","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=46835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}