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(From Agence France Presse)
A black cloud of anger and despair has descended on the ethnic Chinese community in the Philippines as they prepare to bury a young woman abducted and killed in Asia's kidnapping capital.
Betti Sy, a fast-rising Manila-based executive of US soft drink giant Coca-Cola, was found dead by a roadside in southern Manila on Tuesday, her bullet-torn corpse wrapped in a white shroud and stuffed in a black trash bag.
The viciousness of her abduction and killing -- Philippines police suspect the 32-year-old bled to death before her captors telephoned her family to demand a 10 million-peso (181,000-dollar) ransom -- has shocked the …