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Bombing in Baganga distressed children, violated their rights: group

?There are clear manifestations of uneasiness and tension in the children while they were sharing their experiences, particularly during the bombing.? This summed up the report of John Birondo, advocacy…

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In wake of ZTE scandal, a stronger de Venecia bind


Joey de Venecia, in a recent forum in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

Joey de Venecia III, the first whistleblower in the ZTE scandal, regrets that his father, former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., had to pay a steep political price for his expos?. ?Maybe it was his salvation,? Joey says of his father' ouster as House speaker. But blood is thicker than water and, Joey says, their relationship has never been better.

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RP call centers reel from world’s highest turnover

By AURELIO A. PENA | Davao Today

SPECIAL REPORT Despite efforts by the country's call center companies to glamorize the industry, call center agents are resigning, job-hopping, transferring or being fired by the hundreds as fast as they are being hired. That image of a "successful call center executive making it in the business world? is lost to these call center agents who are just too glad to quit the industry.

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