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Read more about the article Historic: Mindanao sultanates converge to support Bangsamoro peace process, federalism
UNITED SULTANATES. The royal sultanates of Mindanao gather for the 1st Grand Summit of the Confederation of Royal Sultanates in Mindanao held at the Davao Convention Center on Thursday morning to express their support for the Bangsamoro peace process and federalism. In photos are Sultan Omar Pax Mangudadatu, Sultanate of Royal House of Buayan and Provincial Governor of Sultan Kudarat and Sultan Mohammad Pinandatu Uko Mluk of the Sultanate of the Grand Royal House of Kabuntalan. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Historic: Mindanao sultanates converge to support Bangsamoro peace process, federalism

Traditional leaders of the royal sultanates of Mindanao gathered Thursday here to express their support to the Bangsamoro peace process and the move to shift to a federal form of government.

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DANGEROUS

A student walks around a collapsed waiting shed outside their school in Teodoro Palma Gil Elementary School, which injured two women on Tuesday morning after a 4.6 magnitude quake hit Davao City. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davatoday.com)

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Read more about the article Bayan tells Palace ‘don’t miss the real lessons of EDSA’
Edsa People Power Commission Vice Chairperson and Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Jose Maria Concepcion III, during a press briefing in Malacañang on February 21, 2017, explains that the simple celebration for the EDSA People Power Revolution commemoration, which bears the theme ‘A Day of Reflection’, is aimed to allow the youth to reflect on the lessons from one of the most historic events in the country. (Ace Morandante/Presidential Photo)

Bayan tells Palace ‘don’t miss the real lessons of EDSA’

Progressive group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan has no problem if Malacañang opted to have a simple commemoration of the EDSA People Power uprising this year. But it warned the administration of “muting” the lessons of the struggle against the dictatorship.

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Read more about the article Gina Lopez to detractors: Fight clean
Environment secretary Gina Lopez announces on Monday, Oct. 24 that the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources will no longer accept new mining permit applications. Lopez attnted a dialogue with the leaders of the indigenous and Moro peoples alliance, Sandugo, at the University of the Philippines Diliman. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Gina Lopez to detractors: Fight clean

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez told her detractors to stop hurling her accusations for ordering the closure of 23 mines and cancelling 75 mining contracts in watershed areas early this month.

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