{"id":615714,"date":"2023-11-07T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=615714"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T06:09:01","slug":"philippines-says-japan-s-korea-india-offer-to-fund-railway-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/philippines-says-japan-s-korea-india-offer-to-fund-railway-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines says Japan, S Korea, India offer to fund railway projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manila: Japan, South Korea and India have offered to finance three Philippine railway projects worth nearly $5 billion, the country&#8217;s transport chief said on Monday, after Manila dropped China as a funding source last year.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said the Philippine government could tap the three countries for possible official development assistance (ODA). He said the government may also fund a portion of the rail projects or seek private sector investments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re exploring these. We cannot give any details yet,&#8221; Bautista told a media forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manila: Japan, South Korea and India have offered to finance three Philippine railway projects worth nearly $5 billion, the country&#8217;s transport chief said on Monday, after Manila dropped China as a funding source last year. Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said the Philippine government could tap the three countries for possible official development assistance (ODA). He said the government may also fund a portion of the rail projects or seek private sector investments. &#8220;We&#8217;re exploring these. We cannot give any details yet,&#8221; Bautista told a media forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}