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(Eagle News) — If her bus did not stop in time, a Filipina, Pauline Bautista, recalls how she could have easily been one the victims of the truck that plowed into a crowd on a busy pedestrian street at the heart of Drottninggatan, Stockholm’s shopping district on Friday, April 7. Bautista, a correspondent of Eagle Broadcasting Corporation’s Eagle News Service in Sweden, recalled the horrific incident as she returned on that busy pedestrian street recalling […]
Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Tuesday said that the Philippine government respects the decision of a Kuwaiti Court to sentence a Filipina who was linked to Islamic State Jihadist Group (ISIS). According to media reports, a Kuwaiti Court sentenced a Filipina to ten (10) years imprisonment after she was found guilty of joining the ISIS and plotting attacks in Kuwait. “In the case of the Filipina in Kuwait, what our embassy can […]
by Ayee Macaraig MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Filipina hostage released by southern Philippine militants on Friday broke down in tears as she recounted how her Canadian boyfriend had been beheaded a week earlier. Marites Flor was abducted in September by Abu Sayyaf militants, along with three others, two of whom — Flor’s partner Robert Hall and fellow Canadian John Ridsdel — were killed. Flor cried as she recounted how the kidnappers led away Hall […]
by Ayee Macaraig MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Filipina held hostage by a notorious kidnapping-for-ransom gang in the strife-torn southern Philippines was released from captivity Friday, police said, a week after her Canadian boyfriend was beheaded by the gunmen. Marites Flor was among four people abducted nine months ago by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants based on remote, mountainous islands, who have earned millions of dollars from kidnappings in recent years. Flor’s partner, Robert Hall, was […]
JOLO, Philippines (AFP) — A Filipina held hostage by a notorious kidnapping-for-ransom gang in the strife-torn southern Philippines was released from captivity Friday, police said, a week after her Canadian boyfriend was beheaded by the gunmen. Marites Flor was among four people abducted nine months ago by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants based on remote and mountainous southern islands that have earned millions of dollars from kidnappings in recent years. Flor’s partner, Robert Hall, was murdered […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (December 24) – “Philippines!” The country’s name is always on the top list of any beauty pageant. So the question in everybody’s lips is: “Why Filipina?” History told us that there were women who joined the fight with men in defending the country when women are suppose to be at home, quiet and soft. This is proof that even before, a Filipina doesn’t just go with the flow, she speaks her mind. She […]
Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a popular resort island in the southern Philippines. Philippine Army Captain Alberto Caber said the four were taken at gunpoint during a raid late on Monday night on the Oceanview Resort on Samal Island, near Davao City. Military and police officials were surprised by the latest attack, which came as a reminder of volatile security in […]
