Zamboanga del Sur, where he was released, is a short boat ride from Basilan.

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Jewelry dealers are doing a brisk business in Jolo, and the growing pool of dollars is drawing swarms of money changers from Zamboanga.

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In 2011, UNESCO supported the training of Phlippines journalists in the provinces of Sulu, Basilan, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga Sibugay.

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Ms Lunsmann, a 41-year-old vet, and the others were kidnapped on 12 July while holidaying at a resort on the island of Tictabon, near Zamboanga.

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Jeffrey Schilling, 24, was strolling with his Filipino Muslim wife of five months, Ivy Osani, inside a mini-mall in the southern Philippine town of Zamboanga on the morning of Aug. 28.

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Mr. Rodwell was taken by helicopter chartered by the U.S. military to the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force facility inside a Philippine military camp in Zamboanga city, about 880 kilometers south of Manila, said regional military spokesman Col.

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As of now I am negotiating with the land owner in the city proper of Zamboanga City Philippines, I am proposing a 60 unit Housing Projects covering more than I hectare land and it cost me 25 to 30 Million pesos in order to start the project.

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