{"id":961,"date":"2014-01-30T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T06:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=961"},"modified":"2014-01-30T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T06:38:02","slug":"hong-kong-tightens-rules-on-visits-by-philippine-officials-demanding-hostage-tragedy-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/30\/hong-kong-tightens-rules-on-visits-by-philippine-officials-demanding-hostage-tragedy-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong tightens rules on visits by Philippine officials, demanding hostage tragedy apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG\u2014Hong Kong will end visa-free visits by\u00a0Philippine\u00a0officials because their government has not apologized for the deaths of eight Hong Kong tourists nearly four years ago, the southern Chinese city\u2019s leader said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Leung Chun-ying said holders of official\u00a0Philippine\u00a0government passports will no longer be allowed to visit for up to 14 days without visas starting Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was the first phase of sanctions he had threatened last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinary\u00a0Filipino\u00a0travellers aren\u2019t affected.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Hong Kong and the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0have soured over the 2010 incident, in which eight Hong Kong tourists and their guide were killed in a bungled police rescue after being taken hostage on a Manila tour bus by a dismissed police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Philippines\u00a0has expressed regret but has not officially apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Leung did not say what further steps he would take. He said the two sides had agreed on three other issues: compensation, holding responsible officials accountable, and putting in place safety measures for tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong issued a \u201cblack\u201d travel warning for the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0following the tragedy, a label the country shares with Egypt, Syria and Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG\u2014Hong Kong will end visa-free visits by\u00a0Philippine\u00a0officials because their government has not apologized for the deaths of eight Hong &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}