Police continue their search and rescue operation to recover Swiss-Filipino civic leader Charlie Rieth, who was abducted on Easter Sunday, April 4, at his rest house in Patalon, this city.

A Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) official has advised the parents of out-of-town students to choose boarding houses that are in conformity with the fire safety code.

The word “jejemon” has been chosen as finalist for word of the year by a group of academics from the University of Philippines in Diliman.

Sitio Balinsungay in Barangay Mercedes has been known as the rice granary of Zamboanga City, but recently, the place has acquired a rather eerie reputation — the dumping site of “salvaged” persons.

Mayor Celso Lobregat has directed the City Engineer’s Office (CEO) to expedite the implementation of projects affected by the election ban to ensure that service to the public is not delayed and hampered.

The 2010 Reyna Elena of Claret Parish Ma. Theresa Shayne Go will be crowned tonight at the Claret Formation Center by re-elected Mayor Celso Lobregat. He will be assisted by newly elected District 1 and former Miss Zamboanga Myra Valderroza-Abubakar. This an annual fund raising project of the church.

Public schools in the country are ready for the rainy season now that the Department of Education (DepEd) has fixed almost all classrooms that were affected by extreme weather disturbances last year, Education Secretary Mona Valisno said Saturday.

Gleaning lessons from their stories of challenges and triumphs in resolving conflicts, five seasoned peace negotiators from Indonesia, Ireland, Sudan and the United States on Friday were in unison that transparency, simplicity and people’s participation are among the essential ingredients of a successful peace agreement.

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. on Sunday asked officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) not to cover up the illegal disposal of used election paraphernalia in a dumpsite in Cagayan de Oro City by falsely claiming that they had been stolen from its office due to the negligence of election personnel.

NEW YORK – You’re at the front lines shooting Nazis before they shoot you. Or you’re a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.

The Japanese government has decided to apply its genetically modified (GM) food labeling rules to papayas, opening the way for the import of modified papayas as early as this summer.

MSN carried this week an interview of the newly elected member of the Philippine Senate, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. His responses to the questions asked of him show that his memory is obviously terribly bad or else he has a severely deformed conscience. He claims that his family did not steal a peso from the Philippine treasury; that there were no human rights abuses during the martial law times except perhaps for isolated incidents of a policeman shooting a civilian. Marcos is now 50 years old and in 1980, some 7 years after his father imposed martial law upon our hapless country, he was 20 years old, old enough to have known of how our country was being run. Unless he refused then to hear about these things, as he continues to this day to refuse to acknowledge that “bad things” happened during the presidency of Marcos, Sr.

Christians and Muslims must stand together and unite because Peace is still attainable in Mindanao, where the crisis is. This is a priority issue to give Peace another chance. If we will not solve this issue, we will be in the brink of another war. North and South Korea are positioning themselves. The world is watching because of the frontline news, 1) “US backs Seoul’s stance on Sunk Ship”, 2) “North Korea to fire at any S. Korea border loudspeakers”, 3) “Thai Court to Rule on Thaksin terror charges”, 4) “China, US open talks with trade. North Korea in focus”.

NUSP’S COMMENT A SLAP ON DEPED OFFICIALS’ FACES: It is a slap on the face alright, but there is really nothing much that Secretary Mona Valisno of the Department of Education can do about the scathing press commentary of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) against DepEd’s fight against “jejemons”.

ROME, Italy — Christian politicians generally have a skewed view of the peace process between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Their view reflects that of the great majority of Christians all over the country. It consists of the following: