In the midst of continuing threats against their schools in Mindanao, more than a hundred displaced students of Lumad schools who joined the “Kampuhan” will continue their schooling in a state university in Quezon City.
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The additional 20,000 troops requested by President Rodrigo Duterte is part of the country’s intensified security posture to guard Philippine territory against continuing security threats.
The United Coconut Planters Bank reported a 12 percent increase in income during the first month of 2017 due to the surging demand for loans.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines said a member of the New People’s Army was killed and one soldier was wounded in series of armed confrontations that took place on Thursday morning, August 3, in the provinces of Davao Occidental and Compostela Valley.
The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives welcomed the signing into law of the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.
Youth groups are set to march to register their demand for free education this Friday, August 4, a day before the deadline of the signing of the proposed Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act.
A group of mothers expressed alarm over the decrease of the number of lactating mothers who complete exclusive breastfeeding to their infants, a situation that signals the increase of infants and babies being fed by substitute milk.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol joins the more than 600 participants to the Mindanao Mango Stakeholders’ Forum that embarked on the drafting of the 5-year roadmap for the development of the mango industry in the country held at the Mandaya Hotel in Davao City on Wednesday, Aug. 2 . (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
More than 600 planters, growers, businessmen and other mango industry stakeholders from various parts of Mindanao gathered in a one-day consultation at the Grand Mandaya Hotel here on Wednesday.
There will be no keeping of street children in order to please the sight of the major streets of Metro Manila during the conduct of the 50th ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nation) Foreign Minister’s Meeting that will start on Wednesday, August 2 until the 8th of this month, a senior official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development assured.
