{"id":7539,"date":"2016-08-29T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2016-08-29T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T10:49:56","slug":"singapore-gives-vote-of-confidence-to-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/08\/29\/singapore-gives-vote-of-confidence-to-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore gives vote of confidence to Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Philippines may be headed in the right direction after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In a recent roundtable discussion with the Manila Times, Singaporean Ambassador to Manila Li Peng Kok said \u201cI think your president has many challenges to face and to deal with. But what\u2019s striking is that he\u2019s got a very comprehensive agenda and his ensemble is very experienced and very capable. He\u2019s going to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7544\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/kok-li-peng-1.jpg\" alt=\"kok-li-peng-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BETTER RELATIONS? There might be, what with the praise given by Ambassador Li Peng Kok. (Images grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/cassandra\/2015\/07\/26\/1480932\/sia-unveils-its-new-silverkris-lounge-naia-3\" target=\"_blank\">philstar.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">She also said that it was the Philippines\u2019 time, pointing out that the country\u2019s economic growth \u201cis amazing and it has steadied for the last couple of years. So anything that boosts that further is going to draw a lot of attention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">She added that there is renewed interest among Singaporean businessmen in the Philippines\u2019 retail, infrastructure, transportation, and tourism sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">She points to improved connectivity as a way to boost tourism and attract more businesses in the Philippines. \u201cIf we open up and improve connectivity, I think people-to-people links will be strengthened, it will boost tourism and businesses will come. Once you connect [these] two points, many things can happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/singapore-lauds-duterte-agenda\/282138\/\"><em>The Manila Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines may be headed in the right direction after all. In a recent roundtable discussion with the Manila Times, Singaporean Ambassador to Manila Li Peng Kok said \u201cI think your president has many challenges to face and to deal with. But what\u2019s striking is that he\u2019s got a very comprehensive agenda and his ensemble is very experienced and very capable. He\u2019s going to do it.\u201d \u00a0 BETTER RELATIONS? There might be, what with the praise given by Ambassador Li Peng Kok. (Images grabbed from philstar.com) \u00a0 She also said that it was the Philippines\u2019 time, pointing out that the country\u2019s economic growth \u201cis amazing and it has steadied for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/08\/kok-li-peng-1-e1472467777659.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","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=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}