Coast Guard admits killing Taiwanese fisherman, claims self-defense

**111prez** · May 17th, 2013 01:37 PM

Nakow, with the kind of PCG or PN ships we have, or don't have, everyone around us is, and can be, a bully.

Sad to say but we are the whipping dogs.

All bark, and bark and bark and bark

**Retz** · May 17th, 2013 03:09 PM

dapat i-boycott na din mga taiwan variety show sa tv.

**Monseratto** · May 17th, 2013 03:11 PM

Kung pwede lang ma settle lang ng ganito. Padalhin natin si Nancy Binay para mag UFC sila dun...experience not required naman.

**Monseratto** · May 17th, 2013 03:19 PM

Taiwan's Media playing up the public's emotion. And I thought the local media sucks...

**Retz** · May 17th, 2013 03:22 PM

kanina sa interview sa dzmm, sabi nung pinay na tga taiwan ung mga taiwanese gangster daw ang pilit na pinapalaki itong issue para mapabalita sa media....

**vinj** · May 17th, 2013 04:09 PM

This issue is being blown up to assholic proportions.

**Retz** · May 18th, 2013 10:06 AM

ano ba ang susunod ng hakbang ng ating gobyerno?

**Monseratto** · May 18th, 2013 11:01 AM

Dapat mag backroom channel ang government. They should elicit the help of Tsinoy groups that have influence over the Nationalist government in Taiwan...

Wala ng Taiwan tourist sa Boracay...

EXCLUSIVE | Zest Air suspends flights to Taiwan
By: Darwin G. Amojelar, InterAksyon.com
May 17, 2013 5:05 PM

MANILA - A local budget carrier has suspended its chartered flights between Boracay and Taipei because of the political tensions between the Philippines and Taiwan.

InterAksyon.com obtained a copy of the letter by Butch Rodriguez, Zest Airways Inc senior vice president for commercial and external affairs, to Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), which stated they will temporarily halt its Kalibo-Taipei flights effective May 20 until further notice.

"This sudden suspension is mainly due to the political crisis between the Philippines and Taiwan," Rodriguez said.

"As such the scheduled charters on May 16 and 19 would still push through to ferry Taiwanese passenger back to Taipei but no passenger on the return flight," he added.

Rodriguez said its charter agent has informed the company that the Taiwanese government has issued a "red travel advisory" to them, saying Taiwanese tourists are banned from traveling to the Philippines.

The Taipei government's move came after it dismissed Manila's apology for the Philippine Coast Guard's shooting of a 65-year-old fisherman, declaring that it was "not enough [as it was] lacking in sincerity."

China Airlines also has pending applications before the CAB to temporarily cease its Kalibo to Taipei flight.

Cebu Pacific, Air Asia Philippines and Philippines Airlines have yet to announce if they will suspend their flights to Taiwan.

Data from the Department of Tourism showed that 210,000 Taiwanese tourists—the fifth-biggest group visiting foreign group in 2012.