MANILA -- Gunmen have started negotiating for the release of 24 Filipino cargo ship crewmen taken hostage aboard a German cargo ship in Nigerian waters, a foreign affairs official said Tuesday.
Some 440 field trainees from Western Visayas get a send-off by the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office. About a hundred of the 800 trainees are being recommended for dismissal from the police roster for alleged abuses and serious infractions during their summit stint in Cebu. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Cuizon)
CEBU CITY -- A diarrhea outbreak in Loon, Bohol claimed the life of a three-year-old girl and caused some 150 residents to be admitted to the provincial and district hospitals.
DAVAO CITY -- The City Council finally passed an ordinance Tuesday banning aerial spray as an agricultural practice in all agricultural activities in the city.
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- More than a thousand members of the Philippine Marines will be deployed to augment the existing forces scouring Basilan to track down remnants of the Abu Sayyaf group and other lawless elements, officials said.
