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AGRIBUSINESS SOLUTIONS

AGRIBUSINESS SOLUTIONS

“We want to contribute to the country’s inclusive growth and food security,” says Alfonso Salcedo Jr. (right), Executive Vice President of the Bank of the Philippine Islands on Fri ...

JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE

JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE

Hundreds of Lumads and peasants from Arakan town and Kidapawan City join the protest outside the Davao City’s Garden Oases Resort Friday, the last day of the Commission on Human Ri ...

PRIME SUSPECT

PRIME SUSPECT

Jimmy Ato (facing CHR officials), one of the prime suspects in the killing of Italian priest Fr. Fausto Tentorio, denies any hand on the crime during the last day of the public inq ...

ODD JOB

ODD JOB

Ryan Lupas, 18 of New Matina Gravahan in Davao City earns PHP 150 a day from sifting sand for making hollow blocks. He said unemployed residents like him look out for opportunities ...

THE ISLAND OF POO

THE ISLAND OF POO

This little island across Sitio Lawis of Kinablangan village in Baganga town Davao Oriental is home to about 1,500 residents who used to call the island a paradise. That was before ...

STAR OF THE NIGHT

STAR OF THE NIGHT

The Wat Arun or the "Temple of Dawn" at the Thonburi side of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand glimmers of golden spectacles that amaze river cruisers at night. (davaotoda ...

WATER CANNON

WATER CANNON

Firefighters try to extinguish the fire that razed the 96-year old Davao Mental Hospital building Wednesday morning along the city’s C. M. Recto Street. The psychiatric facility is ...

BIR, DOF warn small “tax evaders” but lawmakers say “go after big fish”

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “That’s the trouble with the BIR. Ang gagmay ang ginagukod (They run against the poor people). Ngano dili nila gukdon ang dagko sama nila Lucio Tan? (Why don’t they run after the big tax evaders like Lucio Tan?)” – Rep. Luz Ilagan Read more >

March 23, 2013

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K+12 adds to school opening woes

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Davao Today

“As this school year marks the second year of implementing government’s new K+12 program, it only adds to the already chaotic public school system in the country.” – Elenito Escalante, public high school teacher & President of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers of the Philippines Davao Region Union Read more >

May 24, 2013

Today’s View: The price of education

By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR.
Davao Today

I don’t know if I can afford one if ever I will have kids in the future given the K+12 Law and the commercialization of education.  It is a sad and infuriating fact that education should liberate us from the quagmires of poverty but it is the one thing which drives us to despair knowing that our children and our children’s children may never get one. Read more >

May 24, 2013


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