The city has seven hotels so far. The newest hotel, Basilan Business, was opened in March by an investor based in Zamboanga City. “It’s a bit high-end, with restaurant and coffee shop.

Perennial visitors of the famous island paradise called Boracay could now only wish they could travel back to a time when the sugar-white beach was once lined with palms, and not concrete ...

For the overseas Filipino workers returning to their homeland Basilan, they can now enjoy with no fear the new reconstructed White Beach. By plane, only half an hour away from Zamboanga City ...