Witness Friendship 2017 Summer Home and Abroad News Press Junior Journalists Visit the Phl Embassy

Group photo with Philippine Ambassador Jose Santiago L. Sta. Romana and the Witness Friendship2017 Summer Home and Abroad News Press Junior Journalist delegation.

07 August 2017, BEIJING — On August 02, Philippine Ambassador Jose Santiago L. Sta. Romana welcomed the Witness Friendship 2017 Summer Home and Abroad News Press Junior Journalist delegation to the Embassy. President and Chief Information Officer of the Home and Abroad News Press Ms. Wei Yan, led the delegation composed of eighteen young journalists from different provinces.

The young journalists had a 50-minute interview with the Ambassador and shared his experience living, studying and working in China for over 20 years, starting as a campus journalist, then working as a translator and later a journalist for an international broadcasting company. He also shared the various programs the Embassy is undertaking to enhance the Philippines' relations with China through cultural cooperation, education and sports exchanges, people-to-people interactions and tourism projects.

The Home and Abroad News Press Junior Journalist Summer Program brings students from different parts of China to visit Embassies and international organizations and interview Ambassadors and other foreign leaders.

Exchange of gifts and photo opportunity followed the interview. The Embassy served light refreshments.

For more information, visit www.beijingpe.dfa.gov.ph.

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One of the young journalists raising a question during the interview.

Philippine Ambassador Jose Santiago L. Sta. Romana responds to questions of the young journalists during the interview.