Global Courant
A Singaporean businessman was shot on Monday in a popular resort town in Batangas province, south of the Philippine capital Manila.
Mr Chan Kim Tay, 66, had just left his grocery store at a public market in Lian town and was on his way home around 6pm when someone walked up to him and shot him in the head, Sergeant Arthur Rosales, the case officer, told , to The Straits times.
Lian is about a three-hour drive south of Manila.
Mr. Chan was taken to a hospital in the nearby town of Nasugbu, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Sergeant Rosales said police were now checking security cameras near the scene where Mr Chan was killed for clues to the gunman’s identity.
He said investigators were investigating a number of leads, including the likelihood that a domestic dispute could have led to Mr Chan’s murder, and that the Singaporean may have been killed by a hired gunman.
Chan had been in the Philippines for about 30 years, Sergeant Rosales said.
He was married to Mrs. Marife Chan, 49, a Filipino. Their three children are 28, 17 and seven years old.
Sergeant Rosales said Ms. Chan had told investigators that her husband had no enemy and had not quarreled with anyone.
According to Sergeant Rosales, citing witnesses, Mr. Chan kept mostly to himself as he never learned to speak Tagalog, the local language.
Mr Chan was not the first Singaporean to be killed in this manner while living in the Philippines.
In August 2015, Mr. Stanley Jang, 36, who ran a computer company, was shot in the face by two men while working in his office in the city of Paranaque, just south of Manila.
His widow told police that Mr. Jang, who had been in the Philippines for about 10 years, had received death threats over a business dispute before he was killed.
