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...gunmen, believed to belong to a Karen insurgent group. PHILIPPINES Rescue Tragedy An attempt by Philippine troops in Zamboanga del Norte to rescue two American hostages held for more than a year by Abu Sayyaf rebels went disastrously wrong, ending in the deaths of missionary Martin Burnham and a Filipina nurse, Adeborah Yap, and the wounding of Burnham's wife Gracia. Last month the rebels, who had beheaded another American hostage a year ago, had warned that they would kill the hostages if troops came too close. AUSTRALIA No to Kyoto A day after Japan became the 73rd signatory...
...total of $400 million, according to former G.O. Group executives, which he used to finance a lavish lifestyle, expand overseas and buy the offshore bank in the Philippines. He even financed his own action movie, Blades of the Sun, featuring himself in the starring role playing opposite a Filipina starlet...
...surprisingly, the domestic helpers are pessimistic about the outcome of the review. "We really feel under attack," says Filipina Lori Brunio, who has worked as a maid in Hong Kong for eight years and heads the Coalition for Migrants' Rights, an umbrella group of foreign workers' organizations. On Dec. 16, the group organized a noisy march to protest the proposed wage cut. Brunio says that many maids are already underpaid?earning as little as half the legal rate?and don't even get a day off each week. "Hong Kong people know that conditions in our countries mean that...
Chinese and Filipina women come to the U.S. territory of Saipan to pursue the American dream. They sew clothes labeled "Made in the USA." But they work in sweatshops for measly pay and are forbidden to strike or get pregnant, says Tia Lessin's strident but revelatory documentary about wage slavery, American-style...
...Sobero's nightmare began May 27, when he and a Filipina were dragged out of their bungalow at the Dos Palmas diving resort in Palawan island by rebels of the Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic militant group described by a U.S. official as "Kidnap Inc." The terrorists also grabbed a Kansas missionary couple, Martin and Gracia Burnham, who were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary, and 13 Filipinos. They were forced into speedboats and hauled 400 km to Basilan, the terrorists' island lair off southern Mindanao. Rebels last week claimed they had beheaded Sobero, but the Philippine military said it couldn...