DAVAO CITY — SEEING the potential of the cacao industry of San Isidro, Davao del Norte, the regional offices of…
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Jojie Alcantara
The prestigious international magazine Digital Photographer Philippines (DPP) launched a partnership with Sony Ericsson and Seair to fly five photographers to select destinations in the Philippines and provide them with a photographic challenge and adventure. A photographer from Davao, Jojie Alcantara, is one of them.
The Department of Trade and Industry seems to be suggesting that it�s about time the popular clich� �an apple a day keeps the doctors away� be changed to �a banana a day keeps the doctors away.� Nelly Esperanza, DTI Davao del Norte chief for consumer welfare and trade regulation, the department will be launching on July 17 banana chips as a health food.
CITY OF MATI, Philippines � The young daughter of then Mati mayor Luis G. Rabat and now the first city…
MANILA — The Philippine government is putting in place intervention measures for the palay sector to boost production to 19.058…
MANILA — Anti-Terrorism Task Force (ATTF) spokesman Ricardo Blancaflor on Sunday allayed fears over the implementation of the Human Security…
MANILA — The administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is “confident that it will succeed” in addressing the revenue-generation shortfall recorded…

Command responsibility: Can President Arroyo evade it?
Employees of Davao City Water District during a prayer rally on July 5 to oppose the proposed privatization of the government utility company. (Photo by Keith Bacongco)
Bayan Muna today urged Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the presidential security adviser for regions 11 and 12, to lobby for a thorough review of the anti-terror Law or the Human Security Act, saying �the mayor�s objectives in keeping peace and order” should be consistent with the protection of human rights and the upholding of democracy.