The Davao Region recorded its first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); a 21-year-old woman who traveled from the United Kingdom.
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The House of Representatives’ approval of a bill allowing 100 percent foreign ownership in public utilities in the country like power, transport, and communication has elicited criticism from opposition lawmakers and labor groups, among others.
Schools in Davao City did not wait for a confirmation of COVID-19 cases in Davao City, as they suspended classes and postponed graduation ceremonies as a preventive measure.
Many young women, especially within urban poor communities, are becoming more vulnerable to the “prevalent” cases of prostitution. This time, this happens through social media networks, said a non-governmental organization helping prostituted women and children on Sunday.
The slowdown of the inflation rate in the country in February is but an artificial one, a progressive lawmaker said.
A women’s group here on Thursday assailed the proposed amendments to the Human Security Act of 2007, saying it is “worse” than the martial law in curtailing people’s basic rights and freedom.
Ninety-five families of two Manobo villages in Barangay Diatagon, Lianga town, Surigao del Sur province reportedly fled their homes on Friday (Feb 29) amid reported gun battles between government soldiers and the New People’s Army (NPA) near their communities.
A Mindanao-wide Black Friday protest led by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) chapters was held last Feb. 28 to show solidarity to the broadcasting network ABS-CBN which is facing a debacle on its franchise renewal which will lapse on March.
Various youth groups here have denounced the draft substitute bill in Congress which aims to create the Citizen Service Training Course (CSTC) or what they say a “facelift” of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
As the country commemorated the 34th EDSA People Power anniversary on Tuesday(Feb 25), survivors of Marcos dictatorship, along with human rights advocates, warned that the Duterte administration is “a haunting shadow of one of the darkest eras in Philippine history.”
