Taiwanese escapes from kidnappers

SAN PEDRO, Laguna — A Taiwanese businessman escaped from his abductors in a posh subdivision here Thursday night after engaging his lone guard in fisticuffs.

Barangay tanods and policemen found Fong Chen, 53, president of Suntory International Commercial Corp., on Alcorn street here and brought him to the hospital.

Chen was seized by at least four ski mask-wearing men while he was walking toward his car in Zapote, Las Piñas City last Sunday.

Through an interpreter, Chen said his kidnappers tortured him, which explains his blackened right eye and the bruises and contusions all over his body.

After he was reunited with his family, Chen led San Pedro policemen and agents of the Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response in tracing the house where he had been held captive.

Inside the safehouse, a three-bedroom bungalow at the Pacita 1 complex, police found Chen’s identification cards and other personal belongings in a small room where he was kept blindfolded and without food.