SECRETARY Abul Khayr Dangcal Alonto, chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), welcomed the launching of direct flights between Zamboanga City and Sandakan, Malaysia, saying this will boost ties within the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA). Cebgo, a unit of budget airline Cebu Pacific, will have four-times-a-week flights from Zamboanga to Sandakan beginning Oct. 29. This route, said Mr. Alonto, “is among the major connectivity projects” in the four-country sub-grouping within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). “(It) is a clear manifestation that with strong private and public partnership, we can truly make things happen as one BIMP-EAGA family,” Mr. Alonto said in a statement. BIMP-EAGA is composed of the entire Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam; the provinces in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua in Indonesia; the States of Sabah and Sarawak and the Federal Territory of Labuan in Malaysia; and Mindanao and Palawan in the Philippines. — Mindanao Bureau

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