11.   Police closing a trap killed four men allegedly trying to kidnap a businessman in the southern Philippines, officers said Tuesday.

12.   The businessmen were kidnapped on their way to the airport outside the capital last November.

13.   The kidnapping took place within a month since the mayor of Zamboanga warned that Muslim rebels from Basilan were planning to kidnap prominent businessmen in the city.

14.   The kidnapping took place less than a month after the mayor of Zamboanga warned that Muslim rebels from Basilan were planning to kidnap prominent businessmen in the city.

15.   The three suspects have eluded an island-wide manhunt and are suspected of kidnaping a businessman in Taipei in early August.

16.   The three men are also suspected of kidnaping a businessman in Taipei earlier this month.

17.   Heavily armed men kidnapped a businessman in a town near this southern Philippine city on Tuesday, police said.

18.   A businessman was kidnapped by five armed men in the southern Philippines, an anti-crime group said here Thursday.

19.   A judge in Madrid meanwhile remanded three people in custody on suspicion of plotting to kidnap a businessman in the Basque region of northern Spain.

20.   An ethnic Chinese businessman was kidnapped in the Philippine capital Monday by four armed men claiming to be government agents, police said here.