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

32.   Armed men kidnapped a heavily guarded Filipino-Chinese businessman near this southern city Friday, police said.

33.   Armed men kidnapped a lawyer on his way to a court hearing Tuesday in a southern city near here, a local official said.

34.   Police in Srinagar said meanwhile that three unidentified men had kidnapped Ashraf Shaban, editor of an Urdu-language newspaper, from his home in Srinagar on Thursday.

35.   Seven rifle-wielding men kidnapped a local businessman in the latest in a spate of abductions in the Philippines, a police official said here Sunday.