{"id":7638,"date":"2014-04-22T23:43:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2014-04-22T23:43:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:43:23","slug":"manila-mayor-flies-to-hong-kong-to-apologize-to-victims-families-in-bus-hostage-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/22\/manila-mayor-flies-to-hong-kong-to-apologize-to-victims-families-in-bus-hostage-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Manila mayor flies to Hong Kong to apologize to victims&#8217; families in bus hostage tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7705\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7705\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Josephestradapentagon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7705\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Josephestradapentagon.jpg\" alt=\"Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on a visit to the Pentagon, (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"400\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Josephestradapentagon.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Josephestradapentagon-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on a visit to the Pentagon, (Wikipedia photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; The mayor of the Philippine capital says he is flying to Hong Kong to apologize to the family of eight Hong Kong tourists who died in a 2010 bus hostage tragedy in Manila and to offer them compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada said Tuesday that a top aide of President Benigno Aquino III and the national police chief are joining him. They hope to meet with Hong Kong&#8217;s chief executive Leung Chun-ying.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ABS-CBN News Channel while en route to the airport, Estrada said the trip was a joint effort of the national government and Manila city. He says Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras and Philippine National Police chief Alan Purisima will represent Aquino and the national government.<\/p>\n<p>Relations have soured over the Philippines&#8217; bungled rescue of the tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; The mayor of the Philippine capital says he is flying to Hong Kong to apologize to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[561,619,1554,1735,2313,2413,2412,343],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-as","tag-bus","tag-estrada","tag-hong","tag-hostage","tag-joseph","tag-kong-apology","tag-philippines","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638","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=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}