A Commercial Radio journalist has been barred from entering the Philippines to cover the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Manila -- a move that the broadcaster has criticised as "unreasonable".
The station had run afoul of the Philippine government two years ago, when one of its journalists was among a group of nine Hong Kong reporters who were expelled from the Apec summit in Bali after shouting out questions at Philippine President Benigno Aquino about the 2010 Manila hostage crisis, in which eight Hong Kong residents died.
The journalists were also put on an immigration blacklist and were deemed a threat to public safety. But the government subsequently removed them from its blacklist last year.
Commercial Radio said the journalist who was barred from entering Manila on Sunday did not attend the Bali summit, but had registered with the Apec secretariat to cover the meetings.
The station had run afoul of the Philippine government two years ago, when one of its journalists was among a group of nine Hong Kong reporters who were expelled from the Apec summit in Bali after shouting out questions at Philippine President Benigno Aquino about the 2010 Manila hostage crisis, in which eight Hong Kong residents died.
The journalists were also put on an immigration blacklist and were deemed a threat to public safety. But the government subsequently removed them from its blacklist last year.
Commercial Radio said the journalist who was barred from entering Manila on Sunday did not attend the Bali summit, but had registered with the Apec secretariat to cover the meetings.
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