Davao City road re-routing scheme for Undas bared

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today During the regular press briefing at the city hall, Sr. Supt. Manuel Española, operations officer of the Traffic Management Center (TMC), bared their plan to temporarily convert some road networks to go in just one direction or ‘one way’, especially those leading to cemeteries.

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Two female students raped in Kabacan boarding house

By Danilda L. Fusilero DAVAO TODAY The notorious rape of one university student involving the kin of influencial Montawal clan in adjacent Datu Montawal municipality in Maguindanao also took place in one lodging house in Kabacan in 2008. 

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“Why rush the K+12 Bill?” Youth and teachers groups ask

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Elenito Escalante, chairperson of the teachers’ group Kahugpongan sa mga Magtutudlo ug Kawani sa Edukasyon sa Mindanao (Kamkem) said K + 12 is not the answer to the shortage of classrooms, textbooks, and the problem on teachers, among others which are recurring problems of the country’s educational system.

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Mindanao rights groups welcome Desaparecidos Bill in Congress

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today The Philippine Senate ratified on Tuesday a bicameral report on The Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012. If enacted, it would make the Philippines the first country in Asia to criminalize enforced disappearances.

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