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Makati courts junk media case on Manila Pen arrests
MANILA, Philippines -- (UPDATE) A Makati City trial court has dismissed the charges filed by journalists and media organizations against government officials over the arrests of media workers during the takeover by rebel soldiers of the Manila Peninsula Hotel on November 29 last year.
Hostage-taker remains a hero in Tondo
MANILA, Philippines – Armando Ducat Jr., who took 26 preschool children and three teachers hostage a year ago, remains a hero to his “victims” and many residents of an urban poor community in Tondo, Manila.
Ducat: Malacañang did not listen
MANILA, Philippines – A year in the cramped Manila City Jail has not tempered the views of this philanthropic engineer who, exactly a year ago, was at the center of a storm for hostaging 26 children from his own day care center in Tondo to air his feelings on politics and the state of education in the country.
New tutors, annex greet Ducat’s Tondo wards
MANILA, Philippines -- Their “Sir Ducat” may still be in jail, but for around 400 children of the Musmos Daycare Center in Manila’s Parola compound, it’s back to school once again.
Ducat seeks extension of hospital stay
MANILA, Philippines – After undergoing his second angioplasty in three months, hostage-taker Armando “Jun” Ducat yesterday said he would ask the court to let him stay at the Ospital ng Maynila while he is recovering from the procedure.