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Read more about the article Leftist lawmakers: Duterte turns Mindanao into ‘land of lost promises’
Photo taken from Koalisyong Makabayan's Facebook page

Leftist lawmakers: Duterte turns Mindanao into ‘land of lost promises’

Seven lawmakers under the Makabayan bloc bolted out from the House majority on Thursday, September 14 citing the “unraveling of an anti-people” Duterte administration.

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Read more about the article More parks?, open spaces? seen to curb flooding in Davao City
Amidst the flurry of today's start of filing of candidacies at the Commission on Elections office located inside the Magsaysay Park, this group of Moro women hang around at the playground inside the park along with their children. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

More parks?, open spaces? seen to curb flooding in Davao City

?An environmental?ist? ?group here believed that expansion of ?parks and ?green spaces ?with?in highly urbanized cit?ies like Davao ?City would be one ?of the ?solution?s? to the flooding problem.

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MILF to assist in Marawi rehab

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front ?on Wednesday ?expressed interest in assisting the rehabilitation of the war-torn Marawi City? soon after the government military would declare the area secured from the presence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-linked Maute Group?.

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Read more about the article Clipping CHR’s teeth: what’s at stake?
A man stands before the Commission on Human Rights office in Davao City, calling the agency to probe into killings of slain and detained farmers from Compostela Valley. (File photo / davaotoda.com)

Clipping CHR’s teeth: what’s at stake?

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The P1,000 fund allotted by the House of Representatives to the Commission on Human Rights for 2018 will not help the committee in performing its mandate…

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Read more about the article Pulong to help Davao journo threatened with libel
A day after attending their father's inauguration in Malacañang, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte walks fast from his office at the City Council to attend a press conference here on Friday, July 1. He announced that City Mayor Sara Duterte is on leave until July 22. Duterte is accompanied by his security details who are members of the Presidential Security Group. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Pulong to help Davao journo threatened with libel

DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte is coming to the aid of a local journalist who was threatened with libel suit by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. In…

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