PHILIPPINES: Taiwanese investigation team talk to personnel from the Philippine Coast Guard and Bureau of Fisheries about the Taiwanese shooting incident.

Record ID: 862648

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: Taiwanese investigation team talk to personnel from the Philippine Coast Guard and Bureau of Fisheries about the Taiwanese shooting incident.
  • Date: 29th May 2013
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (MAY 29, 2013) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION HEADQUARTERS NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION COMPOUND JOURNALISTS IN FRONT OF HEADQUARTERS ENTRANCE TAIWAN CHIEF PROSECUTOR LIN YEN LIANG WITH NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DEPUTY DIRECTOR VIRGILIO MENDEZ WALKING JOURNALISTS HOLDING MICROPHONES IN FRONT OF MENDEZ AND LIN (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) TAIWAN CHIEF PROSECUTOR, LIN YEN LIANG SAYING: "Today we want to thank NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) for their assistance. We have started questioning the witnesses from BFAR (Bureau of Fisheries)." LIN SPEAKING TO JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) TAIWAN CHIEF PROSECUTOR, LIN YEN LIANG SAYING: "We will question everyone involved in this case, and we estimate that to be 18 people. We estimate there will be 18 people we will be questioning for the investigation." NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION COMPOUND
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Philippines
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  • Country: Philippines
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAAKAU1ZQS2S31NSGVUCD39PRTL
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  • Story Text: A team of investigators from Taiwan on Wednesday (May 29) started interviewing the Philippine Coast Guard personnel about the shooting incident earlier this month that left one Taiwanese fisherman dead.
    Taiwan chief prosecutor Lin Yen Liang told reporters they started interviewing personnel who were aboard the Philippines surveillance ship during the shooting incident.
    "Today we want to thank NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) for their assistance. We have started questioning the witnesses from BFAR (Bureau of Fisheries)," he said.
    The Philippine Coast Guard said that 17 personnel from their command and two others from the Bureau of Fisheries were inside the surveillance ship when the shooting took place.
    "We will question everyone involved in this case, and we estimate that to be 18 people. We estimate there will be 18 people we will be questioning for the investigation," Lin added.
    Lin declined to make any further comments on the progress of the investigation, but said they may finish on Thursday (May 30).
    A Taiwanese fisherman was killed in the shooting incident on May 9 by the Philippine coastguard in waters off the northern Philippines. Taiwan said the killing took place in its exclusive economic zone and was a violation of international law.
    A Philippines fisheries official has said one of its vessels, acting under the threat of being rammed, opened fire on a Taiwanese fishing boat about 170 nautical miles southeast of Taiwan, killing one person on board.
    The row is the latest flare-up in Asian seas where disputes in various places between various countries have raised fears of conflict in the economically vibrant region where competition for resources is intensifying.
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