(Radio Free Asia) The Philippines deployed search-and-rescue teams Monday to help look for a missing Taiwan-flagged fishing boat with a crew of one Taiwanese and five Indonesians, the coast guard said.
The boat, Sheng Feng No. 128, was last seen some 767 kilometers (414 nautical miles) northwest of the island nation of Palau in the western Pacific, the Philippine Coast Guard said in a statement.
The Coast Guard Command Center in Manila said it had directed Coast Guard Districts in the eastern seaboard and facing the Pacific to carry out the search-and-rescue operations after Commander Arthur Yang, Taiwan’s coast guard attache, requested assistance… Read More