Travel Advisories to the Philippines Modified

The Philippine government was happy about the development of its protest on the recent travel advisories issued by several countries because of alleged imminent terror attacks in the Philippines.

Malacanang said that Australia and France amended their travel advisories. Australia removed the phrase imminent attack in Metro Manila while France made a similar decision by removing the phrase "supposed imminent terror attack in Manila."

According to Palace spokeswoman Abigail Valte the changes are significant development because it removed the contentious part in the travel advisories.

During the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Yokohama, President Noynoy Aquino had ask the leaders of these countries to review their advisories because they may just be depending on raw data and there were no validated information on the alleged terror attacks in the country.