Attacks on OFWs in Taiwan isolated – MECO chief
By InterAksyon.com
May 20, 2013

MANILA, Philippines – Chairman Amadeo Perez of the Taipei-based Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) on Monday said that the two incidents of attacks on Filipino workers in Taiwan were “isolated cases involving gangsters.”

In a radio interview, the country’s de facto envoy to the island who has since returned to the country said police authorities in Taipei are already handling the two cases – a Filipino was hurt in the hand trying to parry an attack with a wooden stick (not a baseball bat) by gangsters and Filipinos in a dormitory were attacked for partying noisily in the middle of the night.

These cases were not related to the shooting incident in the Balintang Strait off Batanes.

Tension is high in the two countries after a 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman was killed by the Philippine Coast Guard on May 9. The Coast Guard claimed the shooting was not intended to kill the man, but only to stop his boat from further intruding into Philippine waters.

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