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Mindanao screening of foreign scholarships now handled by DepEd, CHED and TESDA

DAVAO CITY — NEDA Region XI formally turned over the screening of Mindanao nominees for foreign scholarships to DepEd XI, CHED XI and TESDA XI. This is pursuant to Executive Order No. 402, s. 2005 which abolished the Special Committee on Scholarship and transferred its functions to the DepEd for basic education, CHED for higher education and TESDA for non-degree courses. The turn-over ceremony was held last June 26 at the Grand Regal Hotel in Davao City.
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USEP opens basic Japanese, Mandarin courses

DAVAO CITY — In July 2007, the University of Southeastern Philippines through its Institute of Languages (ILs) shall offer three special language courses: Basic 1 Japanese, Basic 2 Japanese and Basic 1 Mandarin. These programs focus on conversational and functional Japanese and Mandarin languages.
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EU ends mission, offers help on killings

Winding up a 10-day "needs assessment mission" to look into the extra-judicial killings in the country, the European group headed by European Union Ambassador Alistair Macdonald offered today "technical assistance" to the government in the investigation of extrajudicial killings, the prosecution of the suspects and witness protection.

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