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BY KEVIN GALANG<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a report to Police Regional Office 3 director Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan, a concerned citizen informed the police of the presence of Chinese men in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A team of police was immediately deployed to check the information.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Police were told the Chinese nationals were seen being disembarked by the PCG at the pier in Bgy. Cabcaben. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prior to the disembarking, the undocumented Chinese men were found aboard dredger vessel ‘”Harvest 89″ during a pre-departure inspection by the PCG in Mariveles, Bataan on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the PCG, the pre-departure inspection was conducted after an agent of Harvest 89 notified the PCG of the ship\u2019s departure for San Felipe, Zambales for dredging operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When the PCG attempted to board the vessel for a pre-departure inspection and to secure the Master’s Declaration of Safe Departure, the agent denied them entry.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The refusal prompted PCG personnel from its substation in Limay, Bataan to perform a more detailed inspection.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A composite team from the PCG initially discovered nine undocumented Chinese crew members even though the ship manifest stated only eight Filipino crew members.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A follow-up inspection found four more undocumented Chinese nationals in hiding in the vessel.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PCG also said a uniform resembling that of the People\u2019s Liberation Army was found on board the vessel, raising significant concerns regarding the intentions of the undocumented Chinese men.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG MEMBERS of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) found 16 Chinese nationals within the waters off Mariveles in Bataan. In a report to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
MEMBERS of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) found 16 Chinese nationals within the waters off Mariveles in Bataan.<\/strong><\/p>\n