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Chinese Target Chinese in the Philippines

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Feb 05, 2019
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The burgeoning Chinese presence in the Philippines is generating a new and dangerous industry – loan sharking and gambling-related kidnappings of Chinese, according to a 44-page report by a Philippines-based risk consultancy.

The kidnappings, almost all by their own countrymen with the occasional aid of the odd Filipino criminal or cop, are obscured some…

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