Mindanao biz groups want Epira law modified to prevent monopoly
Five business chambers in Mindanao urged the Department of Energy to modify portion of the controversial Electric Power Industry Reform Act to prevent monopoly in the energy sector.
Five business chambers in Mindanao urged the Department of Energy to modify portion of the controversial Electric Power Industry Reform Act to prevent monopoly in the energy sector.
Students from the Tacloban campus of the University of the Philippines complained of receiving verbal abuse from the UP president after some of them barged into a top-level meeting of campus chancellors to distribute copies of their petition.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte gets the celebrity treatment as he poses with delegates in the National Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts at SMX Convention Center. (Ace Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
Activists staged a picket at the entrance of Waterfront Hotel during a public consultation Thursday on amendments on the EPIRA law, in which groups such as Bayan called for its repeal as it pushes monopoly of corporations on the energy sector. (Ace R. Morandante/ davaotoday.com)
Many sectoral groups here claimed that the newly signed gun law, Republic Act 10591, will not solve the spate of killings in the country.