(UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered concerned agencies to provide immediate legal assistance to overseas Filipinos facing charges.

Marcos issued the order following reports that 20 Filipino seafarers were being held in South Korea for alleged smuggling of 50 boxes of cocaine from South America into East Asia.

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