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JUNK THIS LAW!

Umbrella organization Bagong Alyansang Makabayan holds a ‘noise barrage’ Tuesday at a gas station along Acacia Street, Davao City. This after the prices of oil products increased s ...

“WE’RE NOT CONSULTED”

Drivers’ group Transmision-Piston in Southern Mindanao, led by its secretary general Edil Gonzaga (middle), slams on Tuesday the Davao City government for its immediate implementat ...

ON CHILD LABOR

Florie May Tacang (right), executive director of children’s rights advocacy group Kaugmaon, says Monday the number of cases of child labor in Davao City is alarming. She noted thei ...

SHOWCASING WORLD-CLASS TALENT

Lloyd Montebon, 11, of Angliongto village in Davao City belts out a song during Monday’s SM Kapehan. He’s one of the 30 Mindanaoans who are hoping to bag a gold medal from the Worl ...

CLUB BRAWL

CLUB BRAWL. Six customers who figure in a fight at the Metro Station in Bajada, Davao City, Sunday evening leave broken bottles, fallen chairs and worried customers in the scene. O ...

IT’S A SLOW DAY

A vendor along Davao City’s C. Bangoy Street occupies herself with a reading material as business is slow on Saturday. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante) ...

BAGSAKAN PROJECT

Gloria Steele (in brown vest) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) leads the ground breaking ceremony of the new trading center in Poblacion village, C ...

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AMIHAN SA DAHICAN

HOPE FOR THE PABLO VICTIMS

DAVAO’S ONE MILLION RISING MOB

ON THE LOOKOUT FOR CRISING

ROADBLOCK

WHERE’S THE AID

FLOODING IN DAVAO CITY

FLUVIAL CANDLELIGHTING

TAWI-TAWI, THE PHILIPPINE FRONTIER

BED

ASENAD BAGO

THE PEOPLE’S SONA

A RADIO WORKER’S FIGHT

INCLUDE US

LAST DAYS OF SUMMER

NOT FOR IMPLEMENTATION

PREPPING FOR CLASSES

AGAINST UNION BUSTING

POWER OLIGARCHY

DONE DEAL

NPA’s Parago declares 5 Army men as Prisoners of war

By DAVAO TODAY
Davao Today

The NPA said their “active counter-intelligence and subsequent operations” were meant to punish AFP units, especially the Civil Military Operations Battalion headed by Maj. Jake Obligado, for continuing to “encroach, settle and conduct psychological warfare and intelligence operations” in the villages of Paquibato District. Read more >

June 19, 2013

Business

BPI pushes loan program for commercial poultry raisers, hog farmers

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

Under this program, land titles covered by Emancipation Patents and Certificate of Land Ownership Award or even pre-patent are accepted as collateral with chattel mortgage on the equipment. Collateral, thus, don’t have to be commercial or residential lots, unlike before. Read more >

May 26, 2013

Human Rights

Group slams Congress’ proposed jail time for young offenders

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today

“Legislators seem to be missing the point. There is a deeper social context why our so-called ‘young offenders’ are being pushed to commit petty-crimes and sometimes used by organized syndicate crimes.” – Arlene Brosas, spokesperon for Akap Bata Read more >

June 08, 2013

Arts & Culture

‘Santa Cruzan’ highlights 5th Flores de Tagumeño

By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today

Sagalas, according to Msgr. Ullysses Perandos, the Vicar-General of the Diocese of Tagum, should “emanate hope, faith and love with simplicity as these were the three virtues of the blessed Virgin.” Read more >

May 27, 2013

TODAY’S VIEW

Environment

Kapalong town acts vs. bat poaching, cave degradation

By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today

“The bat cave conservation management plan will enable us to formulate and implement policies that will protect our bat caves from the abuses of some people who visited the caves for tourism and research purposes.” -- Roderick Parcon, coordinator for the town’s Municipal Tourism Office Read more >

June 12, 2013

Agriculture

Mindanao cacao stakeholders push for price control, increased production

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today

The players in the cacao industry have targeted to produce one Million metric tons of cacao by 2014. Currently, the target falls short with the country producing only 20,000 MT out of the 130,000 to 150,000 MT target. The country needs to plant cacao to about 130,000 hectares to reach the target. Read more >

June 13, 2013