December 7, 2008 · Posted in: Governance, i Report Features
POEA on seafarers’ plight: Piracy a security issue beyond our control
PIRATES in the high-risk waters off the Gulf of Aden in East Africa have taken hostage one Filipino seafarer every six hours in the last two months. In 2007, the Philippines deployed 266,553 seafarers or about a fifth of the world's 1.2 million ship...