March 21, 2010
NPA in Mindanao achieved more victories ...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 03 31st, 2008 | No Comments
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT- MINDANAO Press Release March 29, 2008 Central Mindanao THE NPA IN MINDANAO ACHIEVED MORE VICTORIES- KA. ORIS NDF- Mindanao, said Ka. Oris, greets the NPA on the momentous celebration of its 39th founding anniversary on March 29, 1969. According to Ka. Oris, “We are jubilant...
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The hum of business...
Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Business, Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs, Top Stories on 03 30th, 2008 | No Comments
From 7:30 a.m. to midnight, often up to the wee hours in the morning, the hum of construction work keeps people awake in the neighborhood at the back of the People Support and HSBC building along Jacinto Extension, where a four-story building to be rented out to a call center company is being built. Davao...
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Davao’s new jailhouse gives hope t...
Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Crime & Public Safety, Davao City, Gender Issues, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 03 30th, 2008 | No Comments
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — “The place looks very nice, it doesn’t feel like a jail at all,” Colin Davies, deputy representative of the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (Unicef), observed in a brief visit early this month to the Ray of Hope...
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Davao’s ‘Metal March’...
Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Arts & Culture, Davao City, Entertainment, Latest Posts on 03 30th, 2008 | No Comments
Lapida (gravestone), a homegrown rock band, in a concert dubbed “Metal March” along Claro M. Recto (formely Claveria) street during the Araw ng Dabaw celebration. Other local bands also play different rock genres during the event. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan) An ink aficionado front...
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Two takes on Jun Lozada...
Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs, Politics on 03 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment
This unsigned tarpaulin hangs at Freedom Park along Roxas Boulevard. Rodolfo Lozada has gained both critics and admirers since he testified in the Senate hearings and linked the first family to the crooked NBN-ZTE broadband contract. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales has banned him in Iloilo public schools,...
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Durian city...
Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Arts & Culture, Davao City, Latest Posts, Photographs, Travel & Leisure on 03 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments
A 25-foot structure of a lumad (indigenous) in a lotus position sits along the highway in the middle of Buda and Marilog’s sitio Epol, about two hours ride from Davao city. The lumad holds a durian fruit, representing the city as a home to this foul-smelling-yet-heavenly-tasting fruit. (davaotoday.com...
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Araw ng Dabaw 2008 in pictures...
Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Arts & Culture, Davao City, Entertainment, Latest Posts, Photographs on 03 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment
This year’s 71st Araw ng Dabaw upholds the old traditions even as it welcomes a new official website (arawngdabaw.com) and other portents of more contemporary times. As always, celebrations culminated with the colourful Parada Dabawenyo from Magsaysay Park to San Pedro Street. Men, women, young ones,...
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A hard day’s work for Mac Unday...
Posted by BARRY OHAYLAN in Children/Youth, Davao City, Labor, Latest Posts, Poverty, Top Stories on 03 26th, 2008 | No Comments
Mac Unday,13, pounds on a steel bar, protruding out of a cement post he finds in an abandoned lot on E. Jacinto Extension. If he succeeds in taking it out, the steel bar will sell at P11 per kilo in a junk shop. Mac has seven siblings. His mother, a laundrywoman, and his father, a housepainter, hardly earn...
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Despite doubts by MILF, ‘peace is ...
Posted by GERMELINA A. LACORTE in Latest Posts, Mindanao, Peace Process, Top Stories on 03 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today Secretary Jesus Dureza, the President’s adviser on the peace process, said he remains hopeful that peace is “still possible” even as he admitted the administration may be running out of time with the Presidential elections barely two years...
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An alternative library for Davao book lo...
Posted by GRACE S. UDDIN in Arts & Culture, Business, Davao City, Latest Posts, Lifestyle, Top Stories on 03 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today Davao City — For those who want to read but who are running out of few good books to widen their horizons, an alternative reading center has just opened in Davao. Located at the Lions Club Building along McArthur highway in Matina, the Doa Luisa Villa Abrille...
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Consumer group opposes DCWD’s P100...
Posted by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN in Davao City, Latest Posts, Top Stories on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today DAVAO CITY -Faced by strong opposition from consumer groups, the Davao City Water District (DCWD) refused to attend the second committee hearing of the City Council to discuss the water district’s proposed 100-million peso loan. Instead, the management and board...
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Bombing in Baganga distressed children, ...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Children/Youth, Davao Region, Human Rights, Inbox, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
There are clear manifestations of uneasiness and tension in the children while they were sharing their experiences, particularly during the bombing. This summed up the report of John Birondo, advocacy officer of the southern Mindanao office of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center (CRC), in a...
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City Health Office, DOH launch 2nd free ...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Health, Latest Posts on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
DAVAO CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) and the City Health Office (CHO) conducted a second Free No-Scalpel Vasectomy on March 14, 2008 at the Namru Room, Department of Health Building, in Bajada. The No-Scalpel Vasectomy (NSV) was performed by experts from the DOH and doctors from the CHO who...
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Balikatan exercises: ‘Inhumanitari...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Inbox, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
The Balikatan exercises jointly conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States Army in Luzon and Mindanao were slated to end on March 3, but we do not expect this to be the end of the presence of US troops in our country. We cannot forget that this is the same army that...
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In wake of ZTE scandal, a stronger de Ve...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Corruption, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Latest Posts, Politics, Top Stories on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Whistleblower Joey de Venecia III of the ZTE-NBN controversy said he was sorry about the fate of his father, former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., after he exposed the anomaly surrounding the broadband contract. But he also said the relationship between...
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RP call centers reel from world’s ...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Business, Economy, Latest Posts, Special Reports on 03 15th, 2008 | 9 Comments
By AURELIO A. PENA | Davao Today DAVAO CITY — Like zombies, they stumbled out of the elevator: haggard, red-eyed, and sleepy in shabby, crumpled clothes and disheveled hair. Some in sandals and pajamas, their hands gripping either a big coffee mug or a water bottle, they chatter away in English....
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Museo Dabawenyo opens...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Arts & Culture, Davao City, Education, History, Latest Posts, Photographs, Travel & Leisure on 03 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment
UNVEILING. The inauguration of the Museo Dabawenyo highlights the grand opening of Araw ng Dabaw celebration. Created through a city ordinance, the nine million peso building houses city artifacts, documents and other priceless objects that speak of the city’s history, people and culture. The city...
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For justice, human rights, national patr...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Inbox, Latest Posts on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Today, the call for patriotic duty is upon us, all freedom-loving and justice- seeking citizens, peoples as well as women and men of the Philippines! Today, we are called upon to exercise our sovereign will in this historic moment, and to reclaim our self-respect and dignity as a nation. We are called upon...
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The Ferrazini murder: Battle for hearts ...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
The killing of the Davao businessman Vicente Ferrazini has turned into a battle for the hearts and minds of the people, with both the Communist New People’s Army (NPA) and the Philippine Army using it to lash back at each other. While admitting that the killing was a mistake, the NPA said in an emailed...
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The NPA’s ’self-criticism...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Human Rights, Inbox, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Merardo Arce Command Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command New People’s Army February 25, 2008 A Statement of Self-Criticism on the Ferrazini Killing After issuing a statement on February 4, 2008 claiming responsibility for the punitive action undertaken by operatives of the Ka Paking...
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AFP to NPA: More apologies, no more kill...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao City, Davao Region, Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
5TH CIVIL RELATIONS GROUP CIVIL RELATION SERVICE, AFP Camp Panacan, Davao City March 2, 2008 PRESS STATEMENT More apologies, No more killing, please The apology of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New Peoples Army on the execution of businessman Vicente Ferrazini lacks sincerity and is...
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‘A love letter to the NPA’...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Human Rights, Insurgency, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
As you bravely admit your mistake in killing Centing, it is with much hope that you now also know the person behind the name “Centing”. In case you don’t know – let me tell you a very little bit about this wonderful man the brother, the husband, the father, the friend Centing was a...
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A statement demanding justice & acc...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Davao Region, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Based on the Interfaith Peace & Mercy Mission Held from February 22-24, 2008 in Sitio Dulyan, Brgy. Palma Gil, Talaingod Davao Del Norte On January 6, 2008, intense military operations were conducted by the 73rd Infantry Battalion and the Army Scout Rangers in the remote areas of Talaingod, Davao Del...
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Karapatans antics...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Inbox, Latest Posts, Military on 03 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Camp Panacan, Davao City. Instead of helping the civilians affected by the conflict between the military and the NPA, Karapatan is using them in its propaganda campaign against the military. Base on documents recovered by the military from NPA rebels in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, the evacuation of...
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Mindanao lawyers, law students, paralega...
Posted by DAVAO TODAY in Inbox, Latest Posts on 03 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Uphold the Rule of Law and the People’s Sovereign Will! The lawyers, law students and paralegals from the Union of Peoples’ Lawyers in Mindanao (UPLM) call on Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to step down from Malacaang, for having lost the legal, Constitutional and moral ascendancy to rule the country...
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