About time.
Excellent, it has all been resolved by TP resolving to do absolutely nothing of any use. Bravo Hong Kong! You scored a big one there.two resolutions had been passed by the Manila government: one for an apology and another to declare July 14 of the Chinese calendar and August 23 of the Gregorian calendar as days of prayer for the victims’ of the tragedy.
http://www.news.gov.hk/en/categories...ickList=ticker
Finally - I found this thread!
Howard Winn nicely sums up the farce that was the black travel alert:
http://www.scmp.com/business/article...ong-government
"Obviously the black alert had nothing to do with the security situation in the Philippines but was a cynical abuse of the system. It was a political decision. What effect did it have? True, Hong Kong tourism to the Philippines fell for a while, but that was more likely due to the incident itself rather than the travel alert. After a couple of years the number of Hong Kong tourists to the country was close to pre-hostage levels.
Using the travel alert system in this way just made the Hong Kong government look stupid and petty. Meanwhile, when asked last year why it maintained this farce, the Security Bureau pretended it was related to personal safety issues. Small wonder people have trouble taking the government seriously when it plays silly games like this. Let's hope it has learned something from this."
The good thing now is that it is much safer to rravel to the Philippines.