FACE OF A CARING, SHARING COMMUNITY. Ambassadors Marciano Paynor Jr. (right) and Victoriano Lecaros assist Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, at a press con where they announced the proposed dates for the summit in January. Paynor is secretary general of the National Organizing Committee, Garcia co-chairs the Cebu Organizing Committee, while Lecaros is official spokesman of the 12th Asean Summit. (Sun.Star Photo/Allan Cuizon)
SOME activities for the Sinulog will coincide with high-level meetings of Southeast Asian leaders, if the proposed schedule of the postponed Asean summit is approved.
While this opens the doors to greater international exposure for Cebu’s signature festival, it will also test to the hilt the Asean summit and Sinulog festival organizers’ security, traffic and crowd control preparations.
Paynor, Garcia pitch delay as a chance to improve
THE 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit was tentatively moved to Jan. 11-14, 2007, with some meetings to be held at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC).
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Rainy, not stormy, in metro
FOUR persons were reported injured, families evacuated, passengers got stranded, and power was cut off in at least eight northern towns, but overall, typhoon Seniang left Cebu in better shape than expected.
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