Posts by tag: World

12 years ago

P311 million budget for teachers’ yearly medical check-up sought

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By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today

Pursuant to the mandate, Section 22 of the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers or Republic Act 4670 provides for compulsory medical examination “free of charge for all teachers before they take up teaching, and shall be repeated not less than once a year during the teacher’s professional life.”

12 years ago

Rare spring falls in Cotabato declared a tourism site

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By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today

Unlike most other waterfalls, not a river or any body of water exists above it. The water simply gushes out from rock formations in a cliff at the edge of a hill. A great portion of the cliff is covered with grasses resembling large green curtains.

12 years ago

War, agrarian projects force lumads to struggle for ancestral land

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By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

Indigenous tribes were displaced from their community in the government’s counter-insurgency programs that unleashed paramilitary groups in the hinterlands. When they returned to their lands, they found that settlers have applied their ancestral land for agrarian reform program and forestry projects.

12 years ago

‘Better’ cable TV announced

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By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

Channel assignments are now grouped in genres ranging from local, kids, education, sports, movies, news, entertainment, high-definition, international and religious.

12 years ago

Recipients of NDF indemnification call gesture as ‘sincere’

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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today

“I thank the NPA that even though I only sprained my ankle when we ran for safety after the blast, they still included me in the indemnification.  And I thank them for admitting responsibility.  They truly are sincere,” said Primitiva Dadula, 56.

12 years ago

Cotabato advocates slam commercial production of Bt Talong

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By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

Bt Talong is a genetically-engineered eggplant that produces a toxin against a fruit and shoot borer (FSB). BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) is a soil bacterium whose genes are inserted to the eggplant to produce toxins against FSB.