THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is deploying elite forces, patrol vessels and gun boats to hunt down Abu Sayyaf bandits in Mindanao, a military official said Sunday.

POLICE are intensifying intelligence operations to locate the “lost command” group of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels in the island province of Basilan, an official said Sunday.

ZAMBOANGA City police are strengthening security measures to ensure the peaceful and orderly conduct of commencement exercises in all the schools in this southern port city.

PILL, a contraceptive taken orally, is the most preferred birth control method among married women whose ages range from 15 to 49 years old in the Zamboanga Peninsula area.

A POLITICIAN’S relative and a “lost command” rebel leader were killed while two militiamen were wounded in a firefight in the island province of Basilan, a police official said Saturday.

FOUR government forces were wounded in an attack staged by combined Abu Sayyaf and rouge Moro rebels in the hinterlands of Basilan, a military official said Saturday.

A FOOD processors association official announced Saturday that a high-tech printing and labeling company is expanding its business to Zamboanga City.

PREPARATIONS are underway for the conduct of 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) in May this year by the National Statistics Office (NSO), a local official said Saturday.

POLICE have launched a manhunt to arrest two people who killed a septuagenarian farmer over a discussion about religion in Pagadian City.

A TOP police official has ordered the conduct of an in-depth probe to unmask the killers of a university teacher who was found dead in her own home in Zamboanga City.

MORE than 700 people, including dependents of Philippine Air Force (PAF) personnel, have benefited from a one-day health fair jointly held by American and Filipino troops in Zamboanga City.

A FIRE hit Zamboanga City Thursday and displaced 20 families, the fire marshal reported.

SIGNING of the “Panata ng Pagkikiisa” (Oath of Unity) by political candidates highlighted the consultative conference of the Independent Commission Against Private Armies on Thursday in Zamboanga

ORGANIZERS of a presidential forum in Zamboanga City were dismayed over the non appearance of most of the candidates Wednesday.

ZAMBOANGA City remains to be free from the avian influenza or bird flu, a local official announced.