{"id":44747,"date":"2019-06-18T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=44747"},"modified":"2019-06-18T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T06:42:27","slug":"la-camara-celebrates-4th-philippine-spanish-day-with-an-economic-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/la-camara-celebrates-4th-philippine-spanish-day-with-an-economic-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"La Camara Celebrates 4th Philippine-Spanish Day With An Economic Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In commemoration of the long history of friendship of the Philippines and Spain, <strong>La Camara<\/strong> held a luncheon last June 17, 2019 to celebrate\u00a0and further\u00a0tighten the ties between\u00a0the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44749\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8805.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8805-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8805-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The lunch brought everyone to a trip down memory lane as they share a glimpse of history when the countries&#8217; friendship started\u00a0on July 1, 1898 at the church of Baler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Baler celebrates this momentous event for the 17th time <em>(in accordance to Republic Act No. 9187),<\/em> this year will also mark the town&#8217;s 120th Anniversary simultaneous with La Camara&#8217;s 120th Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/la-camara-celebrates-120th-anniversary-through-a-time-traveling-journey\/https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/la-camara-celebrates-120th-anniversary-through-a-time-traveling-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\">La Camara Celebrates 120th Anniversary Through A Time Traveling Journey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44750\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8846.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8846-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8846-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Honorable Joey Leviste, Chairman of the Philippine-Spanish Busines Council<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the luncheon also\u00a0discussed\u00a0strengthening the Bilateral ties of the two countries. Honorable Joey Leviste, Chairman of the Philippine-Spanish Busines Council, welcomed guests, followed by His Excellency Jorge Moragas, Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines, who gave a keynote address and discussed Bilateral trade relations of Spain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44751\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>His Excellency Jorge Moragas, Spanish Ambassador to the Philippines<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ending the discussion,\u00a0Ms. Agnes Legaspi, the Assistant Director of the Export Marketing Bureau of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave a briefing on Philippine-Spanish economic relations highlighting the growing bilateral trade of the Philippines as well as the ranking, trade performance, and opportunities in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44752\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8859.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8859-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/IMG_8859-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Ms. Agnes Legaspi, the Assistant Director of the Export Marketing Bureau of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event ended with a 3-course lunch and business networking. Cocktails\u00a0and Tapas by Tapella were also served.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more event updates and concerns, feel free to contact\u00a0La Camara at 02-886-7643 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lacamara@lacamaramanila.com?subject=Philippine-Spanish%20Friendship%20Day\" target=\"_blank\">lacamara@lacamaramanila.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2019\/06\/11\/5th-joint-economic-briefing-is-happening-this-june-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">5th Joint Economic Briefing is Happening This June 19<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In commemoration of the long history of friendship of the Philippines and Spain, La Camara held a luncheon last June 17, 2019 to celebrate and further tighten the ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9281,7091,9282,9283],"class_list":["post-44747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-4th-philippine-spanish-day","tag-la-camara","tag-philippine-spanish-day","tag-philippines-spain"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/La-Camara-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44747","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=44747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44767,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44747\/revisions\/44767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}