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ON THE SCENE. Attorney Joffrey Suyao (right), Davao regional director for labor, arrives at the strike camp of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Employees Union to hear our their grievance and offer to help mediate for the re-opening of collective bargaining with the RMN management. (Ace R. Morandante/ davaotoday.com)

ON THE SCENE

Attorney Joffrey Suyao (right), Davao regional director for labor, arrives at the strike camp of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) Employees Union to hear our their grievance and offer to help mediate for the re-opening of collective bargaining with the RMN management. (Ace R. Morandante/ davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article Farmers to lose lands in DavOr palm-oil shift
A RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION. Victims of typhoon Pablo who felt government dilly-dallied on its promise to release the 10,000 sacks of rice in response to their January 15 highway barricade clamor, take to the streets once more, this time, holding the protest right in front of the DSWD regional office in Davao City, to press for what they think is long overdue. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Farmers to lose lands in DavOr palm-oil shift

Survivors of Typhoon Pablo doubted that the government’s plan to shift to planting palm oil from coconut trees in Davao Oriental will help them recover from the 2012 disaster, saying it will only “intensify land-grabbing” of their farm and ancestral lands.

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Asian migrants, youth groups support Hong Kong’s strikers

BAYAN Hong Kong, the militant alliance of national democratic people’s organisations of Filipinos in Hong Kong and Macau SARs, said they sympathize with the Hong Kong people, “who in their desire to effect change and reforms are met with brutality and excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.”

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Rodolfo del Rosario (right), governor of Davao del Norte and chair of Region 11 Development Council presented economic and peace updates during last week's media briefing in Davao City. To his far left is Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon and government chief peace negotiator with the MILF Miriam Colonel-Ferrer.

REGIONAL GOVS MEET

Rodolfo del Rosario (right), governor of Davao del Norte and chair of Region 11 Development Council presented economic and peace updates during last week's media briefing in Davao City. To his far left is Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon and government chief peace negotiator with the MILF Miriam Colonel-Ferrer. (davaotoday.com)

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