SunStar Network News feed for Zamboanga, Philippines http://www.sunstar.com.ph en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:06:14 +0800 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:06:14 +0800 MALUSO, Basilan -- At the crack of dawn, Isni Undin and his men finished sorting 100 kilos of live Tiger Grouper into watertight boxes and loading them into a new motor boat docked alongside Undin's stilt house in the coastal community of Tubigan. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/05/news/ex.combatants.from.basilan.find.good.fortune.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified OFFICIALS of the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature-Philippines has expressed dismay "to find the animals we work so hard to conserve slaughtered on a wholesale basis" by foreigners encroaching the country's territorial waters. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/05/news/group.dismayed.over.rampant.catch.of.turtles.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified A TOP official of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) announced Thursday that it would be much better if the National Government chooses Senator Mar Roxas II as the next government peace panel chairman. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/05/news/moro.rebels.want.roxas.to.head.gov.t.peace.panel.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified A 50-YEAR- old woman was killed while her three children were wounded after they were recently attacked by an alleged mentally-deranged man in Zamboanga del Sur, a police official said Thursday. Senior Superintendent Mario Fermindoza, information officer of the Zamboanga Peninsula Police Office (ZPPO), identified the fatality as Angelita Sumeseg. Her three injured children were identified as Mary Grace, 15, Lodivin, 13, and Bernard, 10. What's your take on the Mindanao crisis? Discuss views with other readers http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/05/news/woman.dies.3.children.survive.attack.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong Garcia THE Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) released last week a livelihood financial assistance to the 30-member Barangay Lourdes United Subanen Tribal Association in Pagadian City to set up a goat-raising project. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/04/news/labor.grants.livelihood.assistance.to.ips.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified COMBINED operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) confiscated Tuesday a shipment of a large quantity of bomb components believed to be intended for terror acts. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/04/news/police.seize.bomb.components.shipment.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE Marine Battalion Landing Team (MBLT) 5 and the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) conducted a joint Medical and Dental Civic Action Program (Medcap) that benefited 350 people in an island municipality of Sulu, a top military official said Wednesday. Colonel Eugenio Clemen, chief of the 3rd Marine Brigade, said the joint mission was held last Sunday in Bangas village in the island town of Panglima Tahil. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/04/news/marines.health.group.conduct.mission.in.sulu.town.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong Garcia THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has scaled down its offensive against the factions of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels responsible for the attacks in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte provinces in the light of the Holy month of Ramadan, which started last Monday. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/03/news/military.scales.down.offensive.in.mindanao.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified MAJOR General Juancho Sabban, chief of the Sulu-based military's Joint Task Force Comet (JTFC), cautioned the public Tuesday against deceitful recruitment strategy being perpetrated by the Moro rebels. Sabban said reports reaching his office showed that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has been pledging "integration into the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)" as bait for conscription among innocent civilians who wish to join the military organization. Visit the Beijing Olympics 2008 blog http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/03/news/official.cautions.public.vs.milf.recruitment.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong Garcia THE military has launched an offensive operation against Abu Sayyaf militants who attacked and killed five Filipino soldiers and wounded 10 others in the Philippine southern island of Sulu, a predominantly Muslim area, officials said. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/02/news/military.offensive.launched.in.sulu.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Cheng Ordonez THE participants of the scheduled two-day 10th National Tuna Congress in General Santos City will focus on the conservation of marine resources on which the expanding tuna and aquaculture industries depend on. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/02/bus/tuna.congress.underscores.marine.resources.conservation.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE Asia America Initiative (AAI), a non-government organization, is distributing Tuesday more than $500,000 in humanitarian aid to evacuees displace by the recent outbreak of hostilities in Mindanao. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/02/news/us.based.ngo.conducts.relief.operations.in.mindanao.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE government is not allowing any armed group to participate in running after the factions of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels that have attacked and occupied several towns in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte provinces. Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff General Alexander Yano said allowing any group like the so-called "Ilaga" will just complicate the situation in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte provinces. Visit the Beijing Olympics 2008 blog http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/02/news/yano.piņol.against.ilaga.revival.html Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong Garcia DIPOLOG CITY -- The government is checking if "there is an immediate need" to purchase at least "one or two" C-130 Hercules plane as replacements to the one that crashed last week in Davao Gulf. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/01/news/yano.gov.t.eyes.to.buy.new.c.130.plane.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE military has launched a pursuit operation against the attackers, who were believed to be Abu Sayyaf bandits, last Saturday in Sulu. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/01/news/military.launches.offensive.in.sulu.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Not Specified THE United States military has poured some $10 million in infrastructure and development projects in the province of Sulu. The Philippine military also spent over P39 million in similar projects in Sulu, in partnership with the Provincial Government. Visit the Beijing Olympics 2008 blog http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/09/01/news/rp.us.military.pour.millions.of.humanitarian.projects.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong P. Garcia DIPOLOG CITY -- An official of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is calling the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels to settle their differences in the negotiating table to bring once and for all a lasting peace in Mindanao. PCCI President Edgar Lacson said Thursday that it is best "for all" to exercise sobriety and respect the institutions that have the constitutional mandate to settle the legality of the propose Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD). Visit the Beijing Olympics 2008 blog http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/08/31/news/gov.t.milf.told.to.settle.homeland.deal.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong P. Garcia DIPOLOG CITY -- An official of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is calling the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels to settle their differences in the negotiating table to bring once and for all a lasting peace in Mindanao. PCCI President Edgar Lacson said Thursday that it is best "for all" to exercise sobriety and respect the institutions that have the constitutional mandate to settle the legality of the propose Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD). Visit the Beijing Olympics 2008 blog http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2008/08/31/news/gov.t.milf.told.to.settle.homeland.deal.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 Bong P. Garcia