Search still on for 20 Chinese sailors

By Charlie Lagasca
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – A joint Filipino-Japanese team are stil l on with search and rescue operations for 20 missing Chinese crewmen of a Panamanian-flagged cargo vessel, which sank near the Taiwan border last Nov. 9.

So far, the bodies of two of the 25 crewmen of the ill-fated MV Nasco Diamond were recovered, while another three were rescued in the South China Sea off Batanes on Nov. 12.