1.   De Guzman grew up in Pandacan, a lower-middle-class Manila suburb.

2.   In the Manila suburb of San Juan, voters and onlookers erupted in cheers as Estrada entered the polling area to cast his vote.

3.   The company said yesterday it would redevelop a golf course in a northern Manila suburb into a residential subdivision.

4.   Police arrested three Koreans Sunday after an American secretly phoned his brother in California to say they were holding him captive in a Manila suburb, officers said.

5.   Police said most of the injured people were passengers waiting for a train in Caloocan, a Manila suburb.

6.   Philippine National Police Chief Recaredo Sarmiento said the information was gathered from documents seized from six foreign Muslim men arrested last Saturday in a Manila suburb.

7.   Police surrounded and killed four thieves early Tuesday in a shootout following a robbery at a church office in a Manila suburb, police and witnesses said.

8.   A German man was found dead in the northern Philippines a day after he was abducted in a Manila suburb, police said Friday.

9.   A gang of robbers killed seven people in a string of robberies in Manila suburbs before dawn Wednesday, police said.

10.   A Hong Kong national and two Filipino associates were arrested as they sold illegal drugs in a Manila suburb, police said Tuesday.