Isko Moreno will use frigate, not jetski, to visit Panatag Shoal

MANILA, Philippines --- A Navy frigate, not a jetski, is what Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso will use to visit Panatag Shoal to assert Philippine rights in the West Philippine Sea if he should be elected president. "We will simply insist and we will fish in our waters," Moreno, speaking in a mix of English and Filipino, in an ambush interview in Gitagum town in Misamis Oriental when asked about what he would do to protect fishermen at the shoal. "If I need to be with the fisherfolks, I'll be with them," he added in the interview, a videotape of which was posted on Moreno's Facebook page. Recently, a Philippine Coast Guard ship reported that a Chinese Coast Gua...

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