Coast Guard admits killing Taiwanese fisherman, claims self-defense

[Monseratto]

WTH?!? Gusto ba nila nakaluhod pagka-sorry???

Taiwan rejects Philippines' apology as 'insincere' - Taiwan TV
By: InterAksyon.com
May 15, 2013 9:43 AM

MANILA – (UPDATE, 10:07 a.m.) Taiwan on Wednesday rejected the Philippines' official apology for the killing of the 65-year-old fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard last week saying it was "not enough, lack of sincerity, volatile," according to a Taiwan television report.

A rough translation of the report in Chinese said that Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou met with his National Security Council at 7 a.m. today to discuss the apology and decided that the Philippines’ “reckless, perfunctory authorization is not enough.”

“To express our strong dissatisfaction,” Taiwan has stopped issuing visas to Filipino workers and recalled its de facto ambassador to the Philippines and sent Antonio Basilio, Philippine head of the Manila Economic Cooperation Office in Taipei, back to the home office.

Taiwan President Ma also warned that if the Philippine government fails to meet its four requirements by 6 p.m. today, Taiwan will enforce “eight inter-ministerial sanctions.”

The Philippines sent Basilio to Taiwan Tuesday evening to deliver the official letter of apology after the Philippine Coast Guard shot dead Hung Shih-Cheng last week, sparking tensions that saw Taipei threaten a naval exercise near Philippine waters.

Since Tuesday morning, Taiwan has stopped the issuance of visas to Filipinos seeking to work there.

Around 80,000 overseas Filipino workers live and work in Taiwan, mostly as factory workers or caregivers. Filipinos are the third-largest group of foreign workers in Taiwan after the Indonesians and the Vietnamese..

[Boy Bastos]

Kudos sa PCG for protecting our territory using Jurassic weapons and tactics.

Napahiya lang ang Taiwan kaya ganyan. Ibang usapan na kapag military ships na pinadala nila. Declaration of war na yun kasi PH territory na yung area. Kaya sobrang OA lang ang acting nila.

[yebo]

mali din philippine government e, apologize agad. dapat yan imbes na nag-apologise e sinagot ang taiwan na kahit wala tayong armas we are willing to defend our territory with whatever little arms we have. and then when taiwan threatened to stop hiring filipinos ang sagot dapat e freeze naman ng philippines to allowing ofws to going to taiwan. puro walang bayag nasa government, nakakainis!

[JohnM]

[uls]

huwag na din mag Apple

gawa ng Foxconn

[yebo]

mga made in south korea at japan na lang bilhin natin. saka thailand (they gave us their old OV-10s when we needed those di ba!)

[crazy_boy]

patay.. ang dami ko palang itatapon sa basura


Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) yesterday urged the public not to blame the Philippine Coast Guard’s killing of a Taiwanese fisherman last week on Filipino workers and visitors, adding that the city government would work to ensure the safety of such workers in Taipei.

at least mas mature itong Taipei mayor.

[Boy Bastos]

patay.. ang dami ko palang itatapon sa basura

Hindi na rin ako mag-milk tea! Balik sa sago't gulaman na lang. :D

[robot.sonic]

photoshop ba yan or talagang may ganyan tayo?

[Boy Bastos]

photoshop ba yan or talagang may ganyan tayo?

Meron naman brod. Hindi naman tayo ganung ka-poor. :D

[yebo]

photoshop ba yan or talagang may ganyan tayo?

may ganyan tayo, all of them were made in australia. at bago pa, 2003 lang yata yung delivery ng mga yan, 4 nung malaki saka 4 nung maliit. may helipad pa yung malaki. these are actually very stable sea going vessels as these were designed for search and rescue missions during typhoons.

[Phoenix67]

medaling sisihin ang gobyerno....pero in reality ano ba ang share natin sa gobyerno natin - ang bumoto at hindi bumoto rin naman ang dapat sisihin kaya ganyan ang gobyerno natin.

we have enough laws...but the those implementing those laws are also lawless.

anyway.... mas madali siguro magpasabi na lang ng warning...All foreign fishermen trespassing Philippine waters without due notice will be shot. Survivors will be shot again!

Para at least they'd be informed! Oh and somebody should make that in Chinese para mas maintindihan ng mga Taiwanese at mainland Chinese na nagpifish sa Philippine territorial waters.

[robot.sonic]

Ayos din pala coast guard ha. May bagong gamit. Sana nilagyan din nila ng video cam para sa mga cases na ganito malakas ang ebisensya.

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[Monseratto]

Hinde na coast guard pero Taiwan Navy...

Taiwan sends two ships to disputed waters

A Taiwanese Navy Lafayette-class frigate (left) and a coast guard frigate sail out of the port of Kaohsiung on Sunday. One of the two vessels carries a S70-c helicopter which will be used to patrol the overlapping waters of Taiwan and the Philippines. A Taiwanese fisherman was killed when a PHL Coast Guard vessel shot a fishing boat in the disputed waters in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) last week. Reuters/TCG/HO

[Monseratto]

Masawa sana yung Taiwan sa pag wargames...

Taiwan to push through with naval drill near disputed waters with PHL Thursday — report
May 15, 2013 5:16pm

With Taiwan's rejection of the Philippines' response to its demands in connection with the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman last week, Taiwan's Navy and Coast Guard will push through with a military exercise near disputed waters.

Taiwan News reported Wednesday that Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said the move is aimed at "protecting Taiwanese fishermen in waters where the exclusive economic zones of Taiwan and the Philippines overlap."

"The determination to protect our fishermen has not changed," Administrative Deputy Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Sun Jue-hsin was quoted in the report as saying.

According to the report, "Kidd-class destroyers and Chengkung-class frigates will take part in the exercise but there will be no live fire."

The same report quoted CGA head Wang Jinn-wang as saying that "the drill will cover waters as far south as 20 degrees north latitude, which is as far as the Coast Guard traditionally goes."

But he added that: "Our vessels will go wherever our fishing boats can go. If necessary, we can go south of 20 degrees north."

Taiwan had set four demands following the death of Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng, 65, in last week's encounter: an apology, compensation for Hung's kin, punishing the guilty parties, and fishery cooperation talks.

While Manila relayed its response Tuesday evening, Taiwan rejected it Wednesday and froze the applications of Filipino workers.

Taiwan on Wednesday rejected the response of the Philippines to its demands, and gave Manila until 6 p.m. to apologize or face another round of sanctions. — RSJ, GMA News

[Devastator]

Let's hope that things don't escalate and the tensions will go down. This is the price we're now paying for lagging behind economically and in terms of military capability. We're practically at the mercy of our stronger neighbors and they're capitalizing on our weakness.

[stickers]

Masawa sana yung Taiwan sa pag wargames...

But he added that: "Our vessels will go wherever our fishing boats can go. If necessary, we can go south of 20 degrees north."

giving a hint na we'll fish on your waters and now you can't shoot us cause the moment you do, these frigates will crush you.

[andywesteast]

Hinde na coast guard pero Taiwan Navy...

Taiwan sends two ships to disputed waters

Stealthy shio.

[Monseratto]

Pwede pa pag tourist visa...work visa lang ang suspended.

Travel agencies downplay PH-Taiwan row

by Jeck Batallones, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 05/15/2013 10:30 PM | Updated as of 05/15/2013 10:30 PM

MANILA - The Philippine Travel Agencies Association on Wednesday appealed to the public not to exaggerate the rift between the Philippines and Taiwan.

According to their president, John Paul Cabalza, tourism will take a huge hit if the issue becomes bigger and will be overblown.

Taiwanese are fifth in the number of tourist arrivals in the country behind South Korea, the US, Japan, and China.

Cabalza said the public must let the Department of Foreign Affairs do its job and exercise diplomacy.

He also said that there is no truth that there is an attempt to block issuing visas to Taiwan.

Last May 2, Taiwan even held a tourism event in the Philippines to encourage Filipinos to visit their the island, he added.

Taiwan on Wednesday said it will impose further sanctions on the Philippines immediately because although the Filipino government apologized over the death of fisherman Hung Shih-cheng, it has not met Taiwan's requests.

The new set of sanctions included issuing a red light travel alert to the Philippines, stopping all economic, agricultural, and technological exchanges, and staging a military drill at sea south of Taiwan.

Earlier in the day, Taiwan recalled its envoy to the Philippines, froze applications for work permits and ordered military exercises in waters between the two sides, to press for an apology for the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman. - with a report from Reuters

[Monseratto]

Na reject rin yung second goverment official...Gusto ata nila isang cabinet offical ang mag-sorry...sobrang kups naman, hayyzz!!!

Aquino had his de facto ambassador to the island apologized for the death, and also sent chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office, Amadeo R. Perez, to personally express "deep regret and apology to the family of Mr. Hung Shih-cheng, as well as to the people of Taiwan over the unfortunate and unintended loss of life," his spokesman said in a statement.

However, Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lin refused to meet with Perez, who landed in Taipei Wednesday afternoon.

Ministry spokeswoman Anna Kao told reporters Lin declined because Perez was not sufficiently "authorized" to handle the matter.

A report on TaiwanNews.com said Premier Jiang Yi-huah said a new set of sanctions may be imposed on Manila if the Philippine government will fail to meet the new deadline to apologize for the fatal shooting of 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng.

Jiang said Taiwan would impose a red alert on travel to the Philippines, remove the Philippines from its visa-waiver program, and suspend exchanges and cooperation in several domains, including fishing, science and technology, and aviation negotiations.

Jiang also said the second wave of sanctions could include a "red" travel alert against the Philippines urging the public not to visit the country, and the suspension of exchanges between high-level officials from the two sides.

"If the Philippine government cannot satisfy our side's four demands by 6:00 p.m. (1000 GMT) today [Wednesday], our government will adopt a second wave of sanctions," Lee said.