{"id":11942,"date":"2019-03-04T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11942"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T05:50:16","slug":"philippines-duterte-reiterates-plan-to-rename-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=11942","title":{"rendered":"Philippines&#8217; Duterte reiterates plan to rename country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dute.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11944\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dute.jpg 640w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dute-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dute-600x429.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Philippines President  Rodrigo Rao Duterte inspecting the Royal Malay Regiment Guard of Honour during a 2016 visit to Malaysia. File photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MANILA, March 4 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) &#8212; The Philippines or Maharlika? Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his plan to change the name of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech late Sunday night, Duterte clarified that he has no specific name yet in mind. &#8220;No particular name yet but sure I would like to change the name of Philippines because the Philippines is named after King Philip (II),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Philippine constitution, he said the Congress may, by law, adopt a new name for the country, and shall take effect only upon its ratification by the people in a national referendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month he first floated the idea to name his country &#8220;Maharlika&#8221; in a bid to move away from its colonial past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archipelagic country was a Spanish colony for centuries until it was ceded to the United States in 1898. The Philippines was named after the Spanish monarch Philip II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not the first time that the idea was floated to rename the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1978, a former senator also filed a bill in Congress seeking to change the name of the Philippines to Maharlika.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, March 4 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) &#8212; The Philippines or Maharlika? Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his plan to change the name of the country. In a speech late Sunday night, Duterte clarified that he has no specific name yet in mind. &#8220;No particular name yet but sure I would like to change the name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}