Malacañang on Sunday asked for a reassessment by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) of its blacklisting of several foreign journalists who allegedly taunted President Benigno Aquino 3rd during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Indonesia last year.

“Our position is that the exclusion should be reassessed, given that there was no similar incident during this year’s summit,” Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. told government-run dzRB radio.

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