Tuesday, November 06, 2007 (Philippines)

City Councilor Leonardo R. Avila III gets updates on a family from a Badjao community in Aplaya during a visit last Sunday. Badjao residents call the councilor Tatay Leo. (Sun.Star Davao/Stella A. Estremera) WHEN Maguindanao provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol went missing last week, talks were rife that he could have sought refuge once more in Davao City, just as he did before he was summoned to Congress earlier this year. But intelligence sources told Sun.Star Davao there is no truth to the talks, so far. Post comments here on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's grant of pardon to former President Joseph Estrada. Post your comments on the explosion at the Glorietta 2 mall in Makati City. [full story]