MANILA — President Benigno S. Aquino III on Tuesday expressed his gratitude to Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) for its contribution in nation building as the religious group conducts its Grand Evangelical Mission at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.

The AFP feel dismayed on the fatalities of six (6) persons including children who were allegedly shot to death while playing in the fields in Sitio Bahing, Barangay Tininghalang, Lapuyan, Zamboanga Del Sur last week.

The 2012 Zamboanga International Film Festival reels off from February 25 to 27 a the Mindpro Cinema 1 and 3 in the city, under the auspices of the Sineng Pambansa program of the Film Development Council of the Philippines and the city government led by Mayor Celso Lobregat.

ISABELA CITY, Basilan – Authorities are keen on helping resolve discrepancies in the documentary inconsistencies in the earlier creation of 12 new towns in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) with the end view of entitling the concerned local government units (LGUs) with the internal revenue allotments (IRA) denied of them for long in the process.

To show the City Government’s serious campaign against DVD piracy including gambling activities, Mayor Celso Lobregat and top officials from the Optical Media Board (OMB) yesterday destroyed pirated DVDs and gambling paraphernalia worth over P30 million.

MANILA — The Philippine Navy (PN) said its operatives apprehended some 8,500 sacks of imported rice aboard a motor launch (ML) near the province of Sulu.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Good news for the jobless!

MANILA — Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Lt. Gen. Jessie D. Dellosa named on Sunday three senior officers to new military posts.

PAGADIAN CITY — Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Zamboanga del Sur 1st District Engineering Office will implement this year eleven (11) various infrastructure projects under the CY 2012 regular infra program, with an aggregate cost of P334.5 million.

Five young Zamboangueño leaders Thursday night were conferred the Senator Roseller T. Lim award, highlighting the commemoration of the 6th Dia de Roseller T. Lim.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Authorities have foiled a possible bombing plot by “lawless group” believed to have ties with the Abu Sayyaf bandits in this southern port city, a military official disclosed Wednesday.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — A 6.9 magnitude earthquake of tectonic origin was felt by people in over 40 areas of the country, but the strongest, mostly in the areas of Negros and Cebu, Monday, February 6 at around 11:49 in the morning, said Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs)-Zamboanga City, Officer In Charge Allan Labayog.