Terror Threat Behind Asean Summit Cancellation. Here’s Why.
In Davao Today editor Carlos H. Conde's blog, he explains why terrorism was the likely reason for the cancellation of the 12th Asean Summit in Cebu: Security or travel advisories…
Davao’s Nograles Taking Heat for Role in ‘Tyrannical’ Cha-Cha Attempt
Sneaky Boy: Nograles plays a key role in “the massacre of the Constitution.” (photo from www.nograles.net)
House majority floorleader Rep. Prospero Nograles of Davao City has been getting a lot of flak (here, here, here, and here) for his key role in the push for charter change and what has been routinely described this week as a “massacre of the Constitution” in the Philippine Congress, which Nograles and his partymates did — tyrannically, according to many — even while the country was still shell-shocked by the effects of typhoon Reming and other concerns. As the country hosts the 12th Asean Summit in Cebu, and as the people’s attention is focused on the event, Arroyo’s men in Congress have vowed that they will not stop the Cha-cha train.
Activists protest in front of Nograles’s office in Davao City on Friday.
Davao Activists to Join 20,000 Others in Cebu for Anti-Asean Protests
Activists from Bayan, Bayan Muna and other left-wing groups in the city will meet up with fellow activists in Cebu to denounce the 12th Asean Summit because, according to them, it benefits only ?the imperialist countries? like the US. Davao Today?s Cheryll D. Fiel reports.
Why Call Centers Are NOT Investing in Davao
The Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry has decried the practice of call-center companies to recruit call-center agents from Davao City for their branches in Cebu or elsewhere. The chamber’s Andre Fornier had a mouthful to say about the matter:
“Cebu is bragging that they have enough call center agents, but most of their agents and also Manila-based call center agents came from Davao. We will not support call centers which are only making Davao City as a recruitment ground. Of course we cannot stop them from doing so, we have no law for that, but we will not encourage our people to be a call center agent in Manila or in Cebu,” he said.
But are these call-center companies really the problem?
The Irrepressible Duterte
Will Duterte stick to his guns in his verbal war with the Church? Mayor Rodrigo Duterte just can't help himself sometimes. This week, the mayor called the Catholic Church's promotion…