Author: ALEX D. LOPEZ

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Read more about the article Youth group drums up call for free education, hits Duterte’s economic managers
In this photo taken on July 21, 2017, youth groups in the region marched along Magallanes street, two days before the second State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte, calling for free education and the stop of attacks against Lumad schools. (MD Genotiva/davaotoday.com)

Youth group drums up call for free education, hits Duterte’s economic managers

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.

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Read more about the article Drop in number of mothers who complete exclusive breastfeeding to their infants alarming
Worldwide simultaneous breastfeeding event held in a mall in Davao City last August 2015. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com file photo)

Drop in number of mothers who complete exclusive breastfeeding to their infants alarming

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.

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Read more about the article STAKEHOLDERS’ FORUM
STAKEHOLDERS’ FORUM. 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)

STAKEHOLDERS’ FORUM

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)

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Read more about the article Stakeholders converge to save falling mango industry in PHL
STAKEHOLDERS’ GATHERING – More than 600 stakeholders from various parts of Mindanao converged in a one-day forum at the Mandaya Hotel in Davao City on Wednesday, Aug. 2 to participate in the drafting of the 5-year roadmap to save the dwindling mango industry in the Philippines. (Alex d. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

Stakeholders converge to save falling mango industry in PHL

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.

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Read more about the article No ‘keeping’ of street children during ASEAN meeting, DSWD official says
Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo visits the Lumad evacuees at the United Church of Christ in the Philippines Haran compound in Father Selga Street, Davao City for the second time on Friday, July 22. In a press conference, Taguiwalo said that they are awaiting updates on the case of the Lumad before they can assist

No ‘keeping’ of street children during ASEAN meeting, DSWD official says

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.

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