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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Daywire) - - An estimated thousand of residents were displaced and huge properties were destroyed when big fire hit late Saturday an island town off Sulu, officials reported. Sulu Gov. Sakur Tan said the fire broke out about 3p.m in a still unknown origin and quickly spread, razing houses and stalls of business establishments, mostly made of light materials. Among those destroyed by the fire was a gasoline station in the poblacion, a known populated site of Siasi town.

Particpants to the recently held Vinta Race prepare their vinta in the shore of R.T Lim Boulevard as part of the spectacles of the Fiesta Pilar.

"This is the hardest part that I should do - to fire a gun." Zamboanga City Councilor Gerky Valesco fires shot that signal the vintasail race at the R.T. Lim Boulevard as part of the Fiesta Pilar Festival Oct. 2007.

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MPA/OPPAP) - - Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus G. Dureza today laments inaccurate news that Malaysia is reported to be abandoning the Mindanao peace process, particularly the talks with the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. In a statement issued from New York , Dureza said the latest development was that the GRP delegation headed by panel chair Sec. Rodolfo Garcia had just returned a few days ago from Kuala Lumpur with positive report that issues on territory and ancestral domain are progressing and that another meeting is set soon, perhaps within the month. Dureza clarified that what is recent is Malaysia ’s decision to renew the International Monitoring Team (IMT) to three months and subject to extension as needed. He added that, to say that this shortened but renewable term for the IMT is "abandonment" is stretching the context beyond credulity. “Malaysia has contributed immensely to our peace efforts and we are confident it w

Civilians walk on the R.T Lim Boulevard, the site where the longest 'boodle fight' to be held as part of the Zamboanga City Festival.

ZAMBOANGA CITY (DAYWIRE) - - The city will be hosting the longest ‘boodle fight’ of sardines, an attempt to land in the book of Guinness World Record, as it celebrate its annual festival next week, official said. The ‘boodle fight’, a military jargon for eating en mass of soldiers in a long table to show unity and morale boosting, will cover the more than one kilometer road stretch of sea-front R.T Lim Boulevard. In the military boodle fight, sardine is always the main toppings. City Councilor Gerky Valesco Jr, said endeavor which will be held on Oct. 11, on the eve of Fiesta Pilar, solicited a strong support from the local government under Mayor Celso Lobregat. “Other than the attempt for the Guinness World Record, the boodle fight will be a showcase of culture of pride that Zamboanga City, now known as the Asia’s Latin City, is a dynamic destination,” according to Valesco, council committee chair for tourism. He said the event, dubbed as “WOW Sardines Diaton Este,”is timely citing th

ZAMBOANGA CITY - (Daywire/05-22-07) Three persons were slightly injured in two simultaneous grenade explosions that rocked Lamitan City, Basilan island Monday night, officials said. The attack, which authorities believed to be election related, occurred near a school where canvassing of votes from Sumisip were conducted. -30-

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PRESS RELEASE ZAMBOANGA CITY (PAZ/05 May 07) - - A Leading peace advocate in this port city challenged political leaders who will soon start a new term of office after the recent elections "to get serious about the peace agenda of the people, especially the dreams of children for a peaceful Mindanao." Speaking at the opening last Monday afternoon of the 4th South Central Mindanao Interfaith Conference, Peace Advocates Zamboanga (PAZ) president Fr. Angel Calvo told the participants how the city's interfaith movement presented an action agenda for peace to local candidates during the recent elections. The Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace (IRMSP) in a candidates' forum it sponsored here earlier this month called for a greater, more pro-active and positive response by the local government to Mindanao's peace process, Fr. Calvo said. The World Vision Development Foundation is holding the four-day conference among some 80 leaders of grassroot

The Kabataan Partylist joined calls to boycott Globe by shunning away from the telecom firms services and transactions starting today. "Globe Telecom's blatant defiance of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) order to rollback unlimited texting rates only shows the company's total disregard for the rights and welfare of its subscribers," Kabataan Partylist president Raymond Palatino said. "Subscribers should teach Globe a lesson and show how much the company really owes the public. A day's boycott of Globe's services and transaction could spell profit loss amounting to millions. The subsequent shortfall in profit should be enough reason for Globe to shed its arrogance and heed the grievances of its clients." Palatino said NTC's order prove that Globe's rash unlimited texting rate hike is uncalled for and is intended to cash in on the high consumer subscription on the product offering. "Clearly, the Unlimitxt rate hike

ANNOUNCEMENT! The Mindanao Examiner in association with the Moro Films will conduct a week-long seminar and workshop on film making on February 24. The workshop is a special hands-on intensive course designed for people who wish to study the art and craft of film making in an intense schedule. This seminar is also useful for corporate media people engaged in video productions. For those with little or no film making experience, this workshop offers strong foundation skills through carefully crafted modules aimed at focused learning, hands-on production. Workshop participants are expected to learn story development, scriptwriting, directing, lighting, editing, sound recording and producing and the opportunity to make fully-realized short films which could be exhibited at film festivals. The workshop is structured in a way that participants will be able to produce their own 5-minute films towards the end course. To achieve this end, only 25 participants will be accepted on a first-

AFP TOP BRASS: Military senior officials (L-R) Philippine Army Chief Lt. Gen. Romeo Tolentino, 1st Div. chief Maj. Gen. Reymundo Ferrer, Brig. Gen. Mapagu, and Western Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. Eugenio Cedo listen to a ground military commander on the on going hunt against al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in Jolo island. (PHOTO HANDOUT/PIO-Westmincom)

ZAMBOANGA CITY (ZAMBODAILYWIRE/JAN. 10, 07) - - Combined government security forces neutralized a bomb expert leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf during a raid in the jungle of Patikul, Sulu Tuesday night, the military said. Killed in the operation was Binang Sali alias Freedom, leader and spiritual adviser of the Urban Terrorist Group (UTG), the demolition and liquidation squad of the Abu Sayyaf. Sali is wanted for kidnapping and series of bombing attacks in Sulu. (MyBreak) -30-