Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) have arrested two suspected drug pushers in Zamboanga City.

COTABATO CITY — The death of eight Chinese nationals in the August 23 bloody hostage crisis at the Quirino Grandstand was not the country’s first.

Government prosecutors vowed to opposed the motion of former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr., one of the principal suspects in last year’s massacre of 57 people, which asked the Quezon City Regional Trial Court to postpone the Sept. 1 trial of the multiple murder charges against him and members of his clan.

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – A new video released Sunday of 33 men trapped in a mine under Chile’s Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food and breaking into tears as they talk about loved ones.

Malacanang on Sunday said it expects the result of the investigation report regarding the Quirino Grandstand hostage incident within three weeks.

Malacanang on Sunday said the nomination of a Filipino-American as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court only goes to show the excellence of the Filipinos in their chosen field even while in other countries.

“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. Youth is that period when man is full of energy, ambitions and zest for life. The power possessed by youth is a recognized force today. Their energy can be used for both constructive and destructive purposes. Whenever there is unrest in a country, political forces use youth to further their selfish interests.

Council sessions are usually done regularly on Wednesday and are being aired on radio stations, and if you are watching on your television set, you can tune in at Channel TV13, as they tape the sessions, so that we can watch and listen to the proceedings inside the hall of the Sangguniang Panlunsod afterwards.

BAYAN MUNA IS CORRECT: LUNETA BLOODBATH IS AN ISSUE OF INJUSTICE: Finally, there is now someone in government---Bayan Muna Party List Rep. Neri Colmenares---who appears right on track on the deadly August 23, 2010 Luneta Hostage Taking Drama: the bloodbath happened because of the issue of lack of justice in the Philippines.

An ally of President Benigno S. Aquino III in the Senate said on Sunday that China should not make a big issue on the draping of the Philippine flag on the coffin of slain hostage-taker dismissed police Sr. Insp. Ronaldo Mendoza.

Malacanang believes that it is now time to prepare for a ‘red carpet’ welcome to Venus Raj who bagged the fourth runner-up crown in the recently concluded Miss Universe beauty pageant.

Congratulations to the Rotary Clubs of Zamboanga City for the success of their 2nd Walk, Run/ Bike to Stop TB Now last August 29. People from all of life from private firms to different government and academic institutions joined and supported this noble activity. There were more than 10,000 people who shown up at the Enriquez Grandstand with Mayor Celso Lobregat, District 1 Congresswoman Beng Climaco-Salazar, and District 2 Congressman Erbie A. Fabian. Mostly ran, others jogged, some pedalled, and a number of them walked briskly from Paseo del Mar.

Lawmakers gave a cold shoulder on the proposal by some sectors to increase by 400 percent the tax on cigarettes to stop smoking in the country.

AB Holdings Corporation (ABHC), in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, announced that it has acquired an additional 15 percent of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation’s (MPIC’s) stake in high-end leisure developer Landco Pacific Corporation (Landco).

Loan activities could ramp up in the second half of the year and hit double-digit rates again as the economy accelerates, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said on Friday.