{"id":49791,"date":"2019-11-10T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49791"},"modified":"2019-11-10T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:13:59","slug":"philippine-tycoon-john-gokongwei-jr-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49791","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Tycoon John Gokongwei Jr. Dies At 93"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MANILA, Nov 10 (NNN-PNA) &#8211; Philippine tycoon and philanthropist, John Gokongwei Jr., died late on Saturday night, his son said today (Sunday). He was 93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gokongwei was born on Aug 11, 1926 in southeast China&#8217;s Fujian Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lance Gokongwei, Gokongwei&#8217;s only son, said that, his father died Saturday evening, at a Manila hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our beloved husband, father and grandfather, John Gokongwei Jr., passed away peacefully at 11:41 p.m.(local time), Nov 9, at Manila Doctor&#8217;s Hospital, surrounded by his loved ones,&#8221; Lance said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gokongwei founded the JG Summit in 1957, which has interests in air transportation, telecommunications, banking, food, power, and property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universal Robina Corp., which he started in 1957, as a cornstarch plant, is one of the Philipines&#8217; largest food and beverage companies. The Gokongweis own the Robinson mall chain, property developer Robinson Land Corporation, snack food and beverage company Universal Robina Corporation and budget carrier Cebu Pacific.&#8211; NNN-PNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Nov 10 (NNN-PNA) &#8211; Philippine tycoon and philanthropist, John Gokongwei Jr., died late on Saturday night, his son said today (Sunday). He was 93. Gokongwei was born on Aug 11, 1926 in southeast China&#8217;s Fujian Province. Lance Gokongwei, Gokongwei&#8217;s only son, said that, his father died Saturday evening, at a Manila hospital. &#8220;Our beloved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}