26 overstaying Chinese nabbed

MANILA, Philippines—Philippine authorities have arrested 26 Chinese nationals who overstayed their visas, police said Thursday.

The Chinese are in the country on temporary visitor’s visas but were found working and living in the villages of Bilay and Maibu in Butuan City, Region 13 police spokesman Superintendent Martin Gamba said.

Gamba said the Butuan City Public Safety Company officers assisted several members of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation in arresting the overstaying Chinese.

Immigration authorities took them into custody Wednesday, he said.

Following are the 26 Chinese nationals:

1. Liu Wei

2. Hong Chao Chen

3. Jie Ma

4. Fayou Wang

5. Zhiwei Chen

6. Yong Zhong Wu

7. Lihua Zheng

8. Hongfu Chen

9. Yu cao

10. Jinsong Cheng

11. Anmin Yang

12. Hong You Chen

13. Xiarong Kong

14. Meiqiang Feng

15. Rongze Cai

16. Shouzhong xu

17. Liliu Jiang

18. Wei Jiang

19. Zhiyang Zheng

20. Youmei Wen

21. Shaohua Kong

22. Shangbing Li

23. Haitao Kong

24. Jiaobai Shi

25. Bingying Chen; and

26. Hsu Yi-Chen