MANILA Ecco Mens Dress Shoes Australia , Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Public assistance hotlines were launched on Tuesday to accommodate reports on security threats and complaints related to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meetings in Metro Manila.
Members of the public are urged to report any suspicious person, suspicious activity or anything detrimental to the security of the APEC meetings. The hotlines numbers are: 0949 729 0082 for Smart subscribers and 0906 216 3615 for Globe subscribers.
Security measures in Manila, especially around APEC venues have been tightened following terror attacks in Paris that killed over 100 people on Saturday.
Colonel Restituto Padilla,spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, said the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines upgraded their alert status from "Blue" to "Red" in preparation for the hosting of APEC 2015. Padilla said the alert status was raised a day ahead of schedule as a matter of procedure following any international terrorist incident such as Saturday's terror attacks in Paris.
Police have put up checkpoints on the roads leading to the APEC venues and quick reaction units, walk-through scanning Ecco Contoured Shoes Australia , baggage X-rays, police dogs, vehicles screening, pedestrian screening and explosive and ordnance division personnel have also been deployed at the Philippine International Conventional Center (PICC) and hotels.
Many APEC leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, have arrived in the Philippines for the APEC Economic Leaders' meeting on Nov. 18 and 19 at the PICC.
Ohio Governor John Kasich Ecco Jeremy Shoes Australia , who has staked his Republican presidential campaign on the upcoming contests in the Midwest, said on Monday he would not need a lead in the delegate count before his party's convention to win the nomination, according to media reports.
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"You’ve got to win. You don’t just say, 'Well, I have more than anybody else, therefore I’m in,'" Kasich said, according to the Washington Post.
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Kasich's best showing so far in the presidential nominating contests was second place in New Hampshire. He is hoping for a similar result in Michigan and an outright win in his home state on March 15 to keep his campaign viable.
He bristled on Monday when asked about contentions by some Republicans that he is a spoiler in the race to beat Trump, whose rhetoric on immigrants, Muslims and women has raised alarm within the Republican establishment and beyond.
"Maybe they're spoiling it for me. Maybe they all ought to get out," Kasich said on Fox News on Monday.
by Matthew Rusling
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- While U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is still leading the race to her party's nomination, the difficulty she's been having with rival Senator Bernie Sanders underscores a disenfranchised and angry electorate.
Sanders racked up surprise wins Saturday in the states of Washington Ecco Mens Sandals Australia , Hawaii and Alaska, riding the wave of anti-establishment feeling that is prevalent not only in the Republican Party but among Democrats as well.
"There are a significant number of disenfranchised folks on the left, and the popularity of Bernie Sanders in this primary cycle is testament to that," Dan Mahaffee, an analyst with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, told Xinhua.
This is fueled by the perception that while she is a Democratic standard bearer Ecco Leather Australia , Clinton is part of the "business-as-usual" politics that the disenfranchised on both the left and right are tired of, Mahaffee said.
"The unfavorable rate for Hillary comes from this perception that she is part of 'established politics' and that electing her would not bring about significant change for the country," he added.
Indeed, while much has been made in the media of Republican Party front-runner Donald Trump's high negative ratings, Clinton's negative ratings are nearly as high.
Just last week, a CBS poll showed that the two candidates have the highest unfavorable ratings since 1984 Ecco Sneakers Australia , when CBS began asking the question.
Trump has favorable ratings of 24 percent, with 57 percent of voters who view him unfavorably, and Clinton scored a 31 percent favorable rating and a 52 percent unfavorable rating.
While Clinton is still in the lead, and most experts still believe she will clinch the nomination, she has a number of factors that bode ill for her.
"Given the perception that Washington could use new leadership, the idea that the United States could end up with a stretch of presidencies going Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton is not in Clinton's favor Ecco Sandals Australia ," Mahaffee said, referring to three past presidencies that have been either held by one of the Clinton family or Bush family.
"Furthermore, many on the left see her as being too close to Wall Street and too interventionist in foreign policy, while many on the right and some independents have a distaste for the scandals that have accompanied the Clinton name," he said.