21.   In the Philippine capital, heavily armed police watched over a dragon dance and wushu exhibition in a public square because of recent kidnappings of Filipino-Chinese.

22.   Indonesian authorities have temporarily halted the operation of a logging company in Irian Jaya until security is re-established in the area following a recent kidnapping, reports said Monday.

23.   But it is their recent kidnappings and brutal murders that have brought the Abu Sayyaf most infamy.

24.   Long suspected in a string of recent kidnappings in the region, Xing managed to escape police manhunts for years, it said.

25.   The most recent kidnapping occurred Tuesday, when a group of attackers stopped a bus from a prestigious school and took three of the children.