{"id":18406,"date":"2017-06-27T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=18406"},"modified":"2017-06-27T17:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:41:28","slug":"philippine-spanish-friendship-day-as-a-symbol-of-stronger-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/philippine-spanish-friendship-day-as-a-symbol-of-stronger-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day as a Symbol of Stronger Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On June 23, The Spanish Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines hosted a business lunch with different Philippine and Spanish companies at Gallery Vask Restaurant in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18411\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish3-e1498535182709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish3-e1498535182709.jpg 633w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish3-e1498535182709-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish3-e1498535182709-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The event aimed to promote the commemoration of the <strong>Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day<\/strong> which is celebrated every 30th of June every year. Among the companies that joined the event are: OHL, Eptisa, Acciona, Inclam, Tamoin, Esgar Land Development Corp, Fuego Hotels, Mondial Tours, Aboitiz, BDO Unibank, PwC Consulting, AB Pascual Foods, Espa-Fil Import &amp; Export Corp, Emperador Inc., Fundacion Santiago, and F\u00e1brica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18410\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish2-e1498534849264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish2-e1498534849264.jpg 633w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish2-e1498534849264-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">From left to right. The Spanish Chamber of Commerce President, Francisco Moreno <\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Georgia','serif';color: #333333\">and His Excellency Luis Antonio Calvo, Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines as the speaker of the event<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18408\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish-e1498535170758.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish-e1498535170758.jpg 633w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish-e1498535170758-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18409\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish1-e1498535159809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish1-e1498535159809.jpg 633w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish1-e1498535159809-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Back then former-president, Emilio Aguinaldo issued an order declaring that the last Spanish soldiers who were in a church in Baler should be treated as friends, then given assistance to return to their country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On June 30 2017, 8:00 a.m. at Plaza de Baler, Aurora, the Inter-Agency Committee for the Philippine \u2013 Spanish Friendship Day celebration will lead the commemoration of the 118th Anniversary of the Siege of Baler (15th Philippine \u2013 Spanish Friendship Day).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day is observed every June 30 by virtue of Republic Act (RA) No. 9187 signed on Feb. 5, 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day is observed every June 30 by virtue of Republic Act (RA) No. 9187 signed on Feb. 5, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/06\/Phil-Spanish3-e1498535182709.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18406"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18443,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406\/revisions\/18443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}