by bitcoin experts and government officials in pursuit of using bitcoin as another form of payment and regulation of it as well.
http://www.wheninmanila.com/5-things-i-learned-about-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency/
That's not what this article said. It was a private conference/sales seminar attended by a few dozen people that happened to include a few individuals in the government that were there in an unofficial capacity. Most of what was discussed was the concept of blockchain overall and how people hope to sell their own version of it locally. Bitcoin was discussed more for its notoriety as an example than anything else.
This was NOT promoted or endorsed by the government.
Yet I skimmed several (not all 20...I'd go crazy) pages of people that appear to be able to write in English but cannot understand what they read or write...