MANILA: The government will deploy 40,000 security and emergency personnel to thwart terror threats to the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) Summit in Manila this coming week, according to government officials.
Ambassador Marciano A. Paynor Jr, director general for operations of the Asean 2017 National Organizing Council, said the government did not want a repeat of the terror attacks in Western capitals in recent years to happen in Manila during the regional summit.
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