41.   MANILA -- Philippine police acknowledge they received a report from Interpol last October suggesting that a Briton jailed here for drug smuggling may have been using a false identity.

42.   Murad and Shah were arrested by the Philippine police, although Shah later escaped only to be rearrested in Malaysia.

43.   On Saturday, Philippine police said their patrol boats chased away a Chinese fishing vessel off Patag, one of the six islands claimed by Manila.

44.   One of his alleged accomplices, Abdul Hakim Murad, was arrested and later turned over to U.S. authorities by the Philippine police.

45.   Several teams of Philippine police were also trained by American instructors last month.

46.   Suspected kidnappers fired two grenades Wednesday into an unmanned Philippine police outpost in an apparent attempt to discourage authorities from cracking down on kidnappers, police said.

47.   The arrest followed the capture Tuesday in Hong Kong of a suspected Filipino drug lord who eluded Philippine police for more than two months.

48.   The Australian experts are training the Philippine police in modern investigative methods, interview techniques and other aspects of handling sexual assaults of women and children.

49.   The FBI asked that Philippine police monitor relatives of Cunanan in the Philippines in case he tries to hide out in that country.

50.   The director general of the Philippine police, Panfilo Lacson, said government soldiers who overran a rebel camp in November found plans for December bombings in Manila.