Author: MART D. SAMBALUD

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Read more about the article ICE CREAM VENDOR
ICE CREAM VENDOR. 5-year-old Nekka Eliza insists on coming with her mother Veronica Soner to work and sell ice cream at the night market in Roxas Avenue, Davao City on Saturday, Sept. 2. The local businesses in the city continue to thrive a year after the deadly blast killed 15 and injured at least 70 people. (Mart D. Sambalud/davaotoday.com)

ICE CREAM VENDOR

5-year-old Nekka Eliza insists on coming with her mother Veronica Soner to work and sell ice cream at the night market in Roxas Avenue, Davao City on Saturday, Sept. 2. The local businesses in the city continue to thrive a year after the deadly blast killed 15 and injured at least 70 people. (Mart D. Sambalud/davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article Broker recants, clears Pulong, Mans from drug-smuggling mess
Photos from Atty. Mans Carpio Facebook page and Davao Today

Broker recants, clears Pulong, Mans from drug-smuggling mess

Controversial Bureau of Customs broker Mark Taguba II cleared Davao Vice Mayor Paolo “Pulong” Duterte and lawyer Manases “Mans” Carpio from the alleged P6.4-billion shabu shipment from China.

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Read more about the article Labor union opposes compressed workweek bill
A worker fixes tangled cable wires along Ecoland Street in front of the Hall of Justice in Davao City.(Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday,com)

Labor union opposes compressed workweek bill

A bill allowing a four-day work week but increasing the number of normal work hours per day was opposed by a labor union viewing it as "plainly pro-business and pro-capitalist."

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Read more about the article HR group hits Palace rating despite abysmal rights record
Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay (Photo by Pinoy Weekly)

HR group hits Palace rating despite abysmal rights record

A human rights group questioned the “very good” rating received by the Duterte administration on human rights protection in the recent Social Weather Station survey despite the President’s abysmal human rights records.

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