Press Release April 18, 2012 Davao lawmaker questions medical school’s policies against its nursing graduates Davao City Councilor Leah Librado-Yap questions the policy being implemented by the Mindanao Medical Foundation…
By Marilou Aguirre-Tuburan
Small-scale miners and peasants in this town have been up in arms against the no-habitation policy, saying it displaced and deprived them of their livelihood. They reckoned, the move is in favor of big and foreign mining capitalists.
Despite a law banning the commercial importation of used clothing and rags, the selling of imported used clothing and apparel or relief clothes at cheaper prices in the ukay-ukay market continues to proliferate in the country. The booming ukay ukay phenomenon also threatens to suppress the local garments industry.