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Read more about the article Asia’s largest: 30K scouts in Tagum City for 6th ASEAN Scout Jamboree

Asia’s largest: 30K scouts in Tagum City for 6th ASEAN Scout Jamboree

Dubbed as the largest conglomeration of scouts in the Asia-Pacific region, Tagum City has welcomed close to 30,000 scouts from 20 countries during Monday’s opening ceremony of the ASEAN Scout Jamboree at the Energy Park, this city.

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Read more about the article Spending money on firecrackers? Help in Marawi rehab instead, group says
A vender of firecrackers along the national highway in Digos City shows a variety of firecrackers and pyrotechnics on Thursday, Dec. 29. She said the supply has just arrived from Bocaue, Bulacan, the country's fireworks capital on Wednesday, Dec. 28. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Spending money on firecrackers? Help in Marawi rehab instead, group says

An environmental watchdog urged the public to help in the rehabilitation of Marawi City by not buying firecrackers this yuletide holidays.

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Read more about the article DepEd says schools are ‘zones of peace’ despite reported attacks
Lumad students, teachers, and support groups led by Save Our Schools rally at the Department of Education’s central office in Pasig City. They ask Education Secretary Leonor Briones to condemn alleged military attacks on their schools spread across Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of Save Our Schools Network)

DepEd says schools are ‘zones of peace’ despite reported attacks

Despite the barrage of criticisms it received, the Department of Education maintains that public schools across the country are “zones of peace” despite groups contradicting such claim.

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Read more about the article ‘Declaring NPAs terrorists a threat to Lumad children’
SAVE SCHOOLS. Lumad students, teachers, and support groups led by Save Our Schools rally at the Department of Education's central office in Pasig City. They ask Education Secretary Leonor Briones to condemn alleged military attacks on their schools spread across Mindanao. (Photo courtesy of Save Our Schools Network)

‘Declaring NPAs terrorists a threat to Lumad children’

President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to declare the New People’s Army as a terrorist group have caused a chilling effect to the Lumad children in Mindanao, progressive groups said.

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