Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018/04/11
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, April 11 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) will summon the Philippines’

Andrew Lee (李憲章)/CNA file photo

top envoy to Taiwan on Friday to protest the Philippines’ deportation of 78 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China on April 4, a MOFA spokesman told CNA on Wednesday.

The ministry has scheduled a meeting with the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Chairman and Resident Representative Angelito Banayo on Friday morning at MOFA headquarters to express the country’s grave concern and lodge a strong protest over the decision, spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章) said.

The ministry did not summon Banayo earlier because the incident happened during the just concluded Tomb-Sweeping Day vacation, and he was not in Taiwan during that time, Lee said.    [FULL  STORY]