(2000 pop. 603,000). Located at the tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Mindanao Island group in the Philippines, the City of Zamboanga is a chartered city independent of the province of Zamboanga del Sur in terms of funding, administration, and so...

Officially, the City of Zamboanga (Spanish/Chavacano: Ciudad de Zamboanga; Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Zamboanga; Filipino: Lungsod ng Zamboanga; Bahasa Sug: Daira Sambuwangan; Sinama and Banguingui: Lahat Sambowangan) Zamboanga is a corrupted word for the...

Byline: Marc Lerner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES CEBU, Philippines - Two bombs ripped through crowded shopping centers in the southern Philippines yesterday, killing six persons and wounding nearly 150 others. The Philippine military blamed the bombings on a group with ties to...

"HELLO, my name is Bong!" We were about to board one of Asia's more precarious airlines when the uniformed official at Manila airport approached me with a beatific smile. I thought he was about to ask for my boarding pass, or perhaps offer me...