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8 Abu Sayyaf kidnappers timbog sa Sabah, nasa kustodya na ng AFP

By Joy Cantos | May 30, 2021 - 12:00am

Walong bandidong Abu Sayyaf kabilang ang isang sub-leader na sangkot sa kidnapping-for-ransom na nasakote ng mga awtoridad...

Probinsiya

Sub-leader ng KFR tumba sa encounter

By Doris Franche | December 10, 2020 - 12:00am

Patay ang isang sub-leader ng Abdussalam kidnap for ransom­ group matapos manlaban sa pagsala­kay ng mga awtoridad...

Probinsiya

‘Kidnap politics’

By COMMONSENSE | By Marichu A. Villanueva1 | January 26, 2007 - 12:00am

The Philippines is unnecessarily getting the bad rap as a "kidnap-for-ransom" capital in this part of the world due to supposed continuing kidnapping incidents. But why is it that these latest...

Opinion

The weakest link

By COMMONSENSE | By Marichu A. Villanueva1 | July 28, 2006 - 12:00am

Law enforcement agencies, prosecution service, the judiciary, the penal system and the citizenry are said to be the five pillars of the criminal justice system in the country. Any shortcoming, or lapse, or...

Opinion

Selectively implementing the law

By CHASING THE WIND | By Felipe B. Miranda | December 9, 2003 - 12:00am

There is nothing more ridiculous than a partial or selective implementation of the law. When the president says that those convicted of kidnapping for ransom (KFR) will be executed but not those convicted of other...

Opinion

A police force cannot shoot straight if blinded by its own rosy statistics

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | January 30, 2003 - 12:00am

Police Director General Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr., rang me up early yesterday morning in response to my column on "rising kidnapping", saying the PNP has been redoubling its efforts. He didn’t...

Opinion

Tough Talk, Tough Life

By NOTES FROM THE EDITOR By Singkit | October 21, 2001 - 12:00am

While the food was decidedly simple (molo soup, fish on a bun, cake) there was more than enough on the table at the luncheon dialogue between President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and 100 Tsinoy business leaders, plus...

Starweek Magazine