PH will assist boat migrants – Palace

MALACAÑANG on Monday said the government will assist so-called “boat people” who will stray into the country’s shores and not push them back like what Indonesia and Thailand did.

Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., in a statement, belied a story carried by a major daily (not The Manila Times) that the Philippines will push back refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar who were abandoned at sea by human traffickers following a crackdown by the Thai government.