Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo: EPA-EFE

Casino kidnappers in the Philippines will be caught ‘dead or alive’, Duterte warns as Chinese flock to gambling boom

President says foreign bandits holding indebted overseas gamblers for ransom will be arrested and killed
‘You can commit your crimes, but if I catch up with you, it is dead or alive. Preferably dead,’ controversial leader says

Topic | The Philippines

Alan Robles

Published: 7:21pm, 26 Sep, 2019

Updated: 1:43pm, 12 Dec, 2019

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo: EPA-EFE

READ FULL ARTICLE

Alan Robles

Alan Robles has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has written for the SCMP since 2002. A freelance foreign correspondent specialising in politics, development, foreign affairs, science, environment and IT, he has a humour column at abs-cbnnews.com and runs the political satire site hotmanila.ph. He lectured for 12 years on digital media at the Internationales Institut fuer Journalismus in Berlin.