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Crime rate down by 72.3 percent

THE anti-criminality campaign of the Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) has yielded positive results, marking a significant reduction in the number of crimes registered in 2011 compared to that in 2010.

ZCPO Director Edwin de Ocampo said the number of crimes went down by 8,255 from 11,410 in 2010 to 3,155 in 2011, representing a whopping 72.3 percent reduction...

Newly promoted policemen take oath

A TOTAL of 208 newly promoted policemen, including four officers, have taken their oath in a mass oath-taking ceremony held Friday afternoon in Zamboanga City

The mass oath-taking was held at 3 p.m. Friday at the headquarters of the Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) with Mayor Celso Lobregat as the guest speaker.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen strike again

GUNMEN riding tandem on a motorcycle killed a carpenter and injured a teenage student in a west coast village in Zamboanga City, the police reported Friday.

The incident took place around 7:15 p.m. Thursday in Barangay awit, 13 kilometers west of the city.

Drug enforcers nab 3 drug pushers

AGENTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested three suspected big-time drug pushers and seized about P200,000 worth of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) in a buy-bust operation inside a fast-food chain in Zamboanga City.

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Business

Business chamber receives 2 awards

THE Zamboanga City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc. (ZCCCIFI) bagged two awards for accelerating business growth and advocacy for the advancement of the business community in the city.

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Opinion

Bautista: Hats off

IN MY stint in the City Government, I came across this group who would get into my nerve. This is a group of women who would go to the central business district selling anything from fruits to vegetables while the authorities would have to run after them. Day in day out this has been a cat and...

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Entertainment

Empress, Ejay back on boob tube

YOUNG Kapamilya stars Empress Schuck and Ejay Falcon will topbill the upcoming daytime series "Mundo Man Ay Magunaw."

The new program tells the story of a loving mother who was tested by time and would sacrifice everything just to be reunited with her daughters.

Empress and Ejay...

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Sports

Two-day golf tournament set

THE Zamboanga Golf and Country Club is holding a two-day golf tournament in Zamboanga City.

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Feature

Facebook helps send Zamboanga kids to school

THANKS to Facebook -- coupled with concerned netizens of the World Wide Web, 34 poor Christian and Muslim kids in Zamboanga City are going to school as scholars this year and thousands more will get to read books, use free computers and study in a private library in a far-flung place hardly...

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Lifestyle

Nurse qualifies to Miss World Philippines pageant

A NURSE working at a government-run hospital in Zamboanga City has qualified to the Miss World Philippines final 25.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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21°C to 32°C
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Manila Bay:
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Diffused tail-end of a cold front affecting Visayas. Wind convergence affecting Mindanao.

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