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IN DEBT. Carlos Anacleto shares how lack of government support forced them to go to traders or money-lenders and incur heavy debts. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Farmers lament heavy debts, low incomes

Usurious schemes and failure of the government to support farmers bury them in a vicious debt cycle.  Farmers are left fending for themselves.

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Read more about the article One fine day in the Araw ng Dabaw
ON THE SIDELINES. An old beggar asks for alms while others were busy catching a view of the parade during the 75th Araw ng Dabaw celebration. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

One fine day in the Araw ng Dabaw

The entire Araw ng Dabaw celebration peaked with Friday morning’s civic parade, the biggest so far in the entire charter celebration.  It showcased 284 floats from different contingents.  

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North Cotabato residents gripe over daily brownouts, as governor slams fake power shortage

“The power outages are but a way of conditioning the minds of consumers that there is a power crisis,” says North Cotabato Governor Taliño-Mendoza, adding that such conditioning has something to do with the privatization of the remaining government-owned power utilities in Mindanao.

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