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Web-only Exclusives November 30, 2000 From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the War A conversation with biographer Herbert Bix From Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Ahead Bad news for the Philippines - and some others From Our Correspondent: Making Enemies Indonesia needs friends. So why is it picking fights? |
Week of January 22, 1999
MANILA Lucio Tan will remain chairman of debt-laden Philippine Airlines despite the appointment of four former executives of Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways to help run the ailing flag carrier. President Estrada said Tan will still head PAL's policy-making board of directors, while the Cathay Pacific management team will take over operations.Week of January 15, 1999
PUBLIC OUTRAGE ACCOMPANIED the last-minute reprieve for a rapist scheduled to be the first convict executed since 1976. The Supreme Court in Manila suspended the execution of Leo Echegaray just three hours before he had been due to receive a lethal injection. Echegaray was found guilty of the 1994 rape of his then 11-year-old daughter. President Joseph Estrada said the decision marked a "sad day for law enforcement," while angry Filipinos phoned bomb threats through to the court building in protest. Echegaray's victim was said to be depressed and restless. She has called for her father's death sentence to be carried out.Week of January 8, 1999
Manila There were 188 known kidnap victims in 1998 compared to 249 in 1997, the independent Citizens' Action Against Crime said in its year-end report. Of the 1998 victims, six were abducted in November and 11 in December.News from The Philippines in 1998
News from The Philippines in 1997
News from The Philippines in 1996
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