Read more about the article Lawmakers tell DepEd: Do not rely on military’s ‘red-tagging’ of Lumad school in South Cotabato
ACT Teachers Representatives Antonio Tinio and France Castro (Contributed photo)

Lawmakers tell DepEd: Do not rely on military’s ‘red-tagging’ of Lumad school in South Cotabato

Militant lawmakers criticized the action of an army unit in South Cotabato ?in tagging as “revolutionary school" a tribal school in Sitio Lamnu, Barangay Lam Afus, Banga.

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Read more about the article Tagum to teach real property tax to Grade 9 students
NEW MODULE. Department of Education Region XI officials and teachers from public and private schools attend the launching of the new Real Property Taxation module that will benefit Grade 9 students in their Araling Panlipunan subject. The launching was held during the convocation at the New City Hall in Tagum City on Monday, October 2.(Vinz Davo/CIO Tagum)

Tagum to teach real property tax to Grade 9 students

To increase awareness on taxation among high school students, the city government of Tagum has rolled out a learning module on real property tax for Grade 9 students, the City Information Office said on Thursday.

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Read more about the article NUPL to Duterte: silencing the Ombudsman means tyranny
President Rodrigo Duterte (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

NUPL to Duterte: silencing the Ombudsman means tyranny

The move of President Rodrigo Duterte to silence the Office of the Ombudsman and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines did not sit well with the National Union of People's Lawyers, describing such as a sign of the President’s “tyrannical tendencies.”

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Read more about the article DENR’s Cimatu the right man ‘for polluters’, says group
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administers the oath of office for the newly-apppointed Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu prior to the start of the 15th Cabinet Meeting at the State Dining Room of Malacañan Palace on May 7, 2017. Also in the photo is Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence Go. (Richard Madelo/Presidential Photo)

DENR’s Cimatu the right man ‘for polluters’, says group

The speedy confirmation of Roy Cimatu as the secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) only confirms that he is “the right man for big business plunderers and polluters,” an environmental group said.

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