Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Philippine Police Gunboats Anger China in Fishing Fight

Two Philippine police gunboats catch up with an illegal fishing vessel after a short, intense chase and circle it like menacing sharks, their armed commandos poised to rappel onboard. "Their first reaction is to flee, but they stop once they realise they cannot out-run us," boat captain John Rey Zumarraga told AFP during a training exercise in Honda Bay off the Philippines' most western island of Palawan. With top speeds of 83 kilometres an hour (45 ...

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