Farmers with scientists and environment advocates gathered in Ateneo de Davao University to express opposition to the genetically-modified golden rice variety being promoted by multinationals. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
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A memorandum of agreement to promote Southern Mindanao as investment hub and gateway to Southeast Asia was signed by Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Mindanao (JCCM) President Keisuke Nakao, European Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (ECCP) Vice President and General Manager Martial Beck and American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines Davao (AMCHAM Davao) President Philip Dizon. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A child “Angel” descends to announce “the resurrection of Jesus” during the early Easter Sunday mass of the San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City.
Children sell colored candles to the thousands who flocked the Catholic Good Friday mass at the San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Thousands of Churchgoers of the San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City join the procession of the Virgin Mary on the Catholic celebration of Good Friday. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Thousands flock the San Pedro Cathedral during the Catholic Good Friday mass at the San Pedro Church on Davao City. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A Talaingod Manobo couple perform a dance in the opening of a video forum with Fil-Americans and American church people at the UCCP Haran Compound. The Fil-Ams and Americans visited Talaingod in previous solidarity missions. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
FLOWERS, LEI FOR GRADUATION. Vendors squeeze their graduation lei and flowers between grills to a potential customer during the graduation ceremony at the University of Southeastern Philippines Davao City.
FIRE VICTIMS LINE UP. Thousands who had lost their houses to the April 4 fire flocked to the Mini-Forest Gym in Barangay 23-C to receive government assistance of P 10,000 each. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
A HOUSE USED TO STAND. Residents along Boulevared had put up markers like these on the lots where they houses used to stand, anticipating that they will return after local officials announced it would rehabilitate the area following the fire that razed over 1,000 houses. (Ace Morandante/davaotoday.com)
