DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — “Successful” was how the head of the congressional team sent to Sabah to look into the situation of detained Filipinos and the status of Filipino refugees and their children there, described the outcome of their mission.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — The head of the congressional team sent to Malaysia by the House of Representatives to ask authorities there for a “smooth and staggered deportation” of Filipino women and children considered illegally staying in Sabah, made the headline of Kota Kinabalu’s The Borneo Post last Tuesday for allegedly saying the children of refugees who fled the war in Mindanao are “not Filipinos.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) – Mindanao, specifically Davao City, will host the 1st EAGA Media Summit in March 2007.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — Key leaders of the Regional Development Council of Region 12 (Southwestern Mindanao) will meet with national government officials and representatives of foreign donor agencies in Manila next week to lobby for some P11.2 billion worth of investments for priority development projects in the region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 November) — All public installations should have a physical security and a bomb incident plan, an official from the military's explosives unit said Friday.
But it isn't an alarmist pitch, said Capt. Ramon Torres, commanding officer of the 6th Explosives Ordinance Disposal Detachment Unit. "We are only trying to increase the awareness of the public on these explosives," he said in a press conference here.
