THE captain of the Vietnamese ship that rescued 22 Filipino fishermen after their boat was rammed by a Chinese vessel recalled how the victims were 'hungry and quivering' when he and his crew found them drifting in the area of the South China Sea.

In a report on the Saigon Times quoting local news website Vnexpress, Captain Nguyen Thanh Tam said that about 1 a.m. on June 10, he and his crew woke up to voices of foreigners.