MetroBriefs

Trader kidnapped, robbed in Marikina

FIVE armed men abducted a businessman in Marikina City on Sunday morning. They later dropped him off in Silang, Cavite, returned his sport utility vehicle but took his other valuables and P6,000 in cash. Senior Supt. Gabriel Lopez, Marikina police chief, said Loriel Colinayo, 27, a businessman, reported the robbery to them several hours later. Colinayo was withdrawing money on Sunday morning at an ATM booth in Bayan-bayanan Avenue in Marikina City when two men approached him and at gunpoint, took his car keys and herded him inside a Toyota Revo. They drove off with him while three of their cohorts followed them in his Mitsubishi Adventure. The victim said they stopped at an ATM booth in Libis, Quezon City, and forced him to withdraw P6,000 from his account. Later on, the men released him in Silang, Cavite. They took his cell phone and wristwatch and returned to him his car keys and vehicle before leaving. Niña Calleja

Free screening of Pacquiao fight

MANILA’S sports centers will hold a free screening of the highly anticipated match of Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and American “Sugar” Shane Mosley in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday. Ricardo de Guzman, Mayor Alfredo Lim’s chief of staff and media bureau chief, said that the fight would be shown at the Tondo Sports Complex near Tondo Church; Patricia Sports Complex on Flora Street, Gagalangin, Tondo; Rasac Covered Court on Alvarez Street corner Rizal Avenue; Dapitan Sports Complex on Instruccion Street, Sampaloc; San Andres Sports Complex on San Andres Street, Malate and Teresa Covered Court on Teresa Street, Sta. Mesa. Complimentary tickets will be given out on a first come, first served basis at barangay halls. Anna Bettina Pangalangan, contributor

Kwok lecture at UE

THE University of the East will hold a lecture on “Fighting Corruption in the Philippines: What Went Wrong and What Can be Done Now?” on May 5 at 1:30 p.m. at UE Manila with guest speaker international anticorruption expert Tony Kwok. Lecture participants/attendees are requested to preregister by contacting the UE Graduate School at 7355471 local 358 or 374, or by faxing a letter of intent to attend to 7358533.