PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the deportation of 10 Vietnamese fishermen caught poaching on Philippine waters.

“I have ordered the other companions of that group [of Vietnamese] who intruded into our economic zone…that they should…I told [Justice Secretary Vitaliano] Aguirre to just dismiss the case and deport them. After all, there were some of them who already died,” Duterte said on Friday in a news conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting hosted by Vietnam.

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