A sight familiar to Philippine Coast Guard personnel and Filipino fishermen docked at the Manila port last week: a China Coast Guard (CCG) ship with the tell-tale blue and red streaks painted on its white hull. Ships like it are not a welcoming presence in the West Philippine Sea where they are often encountered; as ABS-CBN’s Chiara Zambrano noted in her report, they are the vessels that would drive away Philippine ships, shoo Filipino fishermen (sometimes
Last Saturday, according to the Bulletin, six Chinese men tried to abduct an 18-year-old Filipina as she waited for a taxi outside her home in Makati City. Barangay tanod or village watchmen were able to arrest four of the men, all of them in their 20s; two escaped. This was
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