Breaking News: An improvised explosive device (IED) explodes in front of the mayor's residence at Sunrise Barangay, Isabela City, Zamboanga Peninsula Basilan Province.  Initial reports injured Jonathan L. Cabayao, Chapter Admin of Basilan Red Cross.  No fatalities as of press time.   Red Cross vehicle was following the convoy of Isabela Vice Mayor Abdulbaki Ajibon. - Information from Basilan! Basilan! facebook.

The Philippine Medical Association held it’s 105th Annual Convention and Scientific Meeting and 15th MASEAN CONFERENCE last May 14 to 18, 2012 at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel with its theme “Manggagamot: Kaagapay ng Sambayanan Tungo sa Tunay na Pagbabago”.

After testifying for almost three hours this afternoon, Chief Justice Renato Corona walked out.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile ordered a lock down of the Senate building in Pasay City after Chief Justice Renato Corona walked out and asked to be “excused” even though he had not yet been discharged from the witness stand at his own impeachment trial.

The official of Georgia Department of Transportation said there were a total of around 200 students from Burke County Middle School in Waynesboro, Ga., on the six buses, leaving more than 50 people injured.

There were at least six buses taking some 200 middle school students to Six Flags crashed today in Newton County, Georgia the report said.

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's, a crime reporter was abducted last Thursday in Northwest Sonora State and on Friday his cold boy was found inside a plastic  bag, a reports from online news website.

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's, a crime reporter was abducted last Thursday in Northwest Sonora State and on Friday his cold boy was found inside a plastic  bag, a reports from online news website.

The idea had been in gestation since he went through certain experiences in his missionary assignment in Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte. In the intervening years he became more convinced that this was an idea God wanted him to carry out. With the encouragement of Christian and Muslim friends, the Silsilah Dialogue Movement was established on May 9, 1984. The date happened to be the 42nd birthday of Fr. Sebastiano D’Ambra, PIME known from then on as the Founder of the Silsilah Dialogue Movement.

The will be ten (10) brand new patrol ships from Japan to be turn-over to Philippines in order to boost the country's territorial defense in the West Philippine Sea where Scarborough Shoal is situated.  The news information is posted online via Modernize the Philippine Navy Facebook.

(September 17, 1949 - April 1, 2012)

Arturo Fargas Eustaquio III, fondly called "Archie" or "Baby" to his closest friends, was born in Zamboanga City on September 17, 1949 as the 6th child of Arturo F. Eustaquio Sr. and Rosa Fargas.

The local media of Zamboanga City covers the press conference with Senator Aquilino Pimentel III (right side with red colar). Mayor Celso L. Lobregat, City Mayor (right side with blue shirt) was one of the signatories in the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) entered into by Senator Pimentel and Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) with Dr. Romeo Ong. Pimentel donated 1 million from his Pork Barrel purposely for the health and medical assistance to indigent patients in the region.-- Photo by Riza P. Lacbao