By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA)
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
The dissenting opinions are valuable because, for once, significant parts of an institution of this country, the Supreme Court, exposed the narrative of inequality between the contracting parties of the Visiting Forces Agreement.Read on.
By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today
At first I thought the white car (brand name: Cherry) displayed on the right side of Bangoy street at the Davao Chinatown night market was a prize for patrons. It turned out that it was up for sale.
A few steps away, women handed out flyers. It took a moment for me to notice that the large picture frame was not a painting but a picture of a clubhouse. The women were real estate brokers selling subdivision lots. Now I hadn’t seen that in any of the countrys night markets.Read on.
By CJ Kuizon Davao Today When I hear ‘night market’, I cannot help but imagine the one in Cagayan de…
Mekong catfish, popularly known in Davao as “pangasius,” is a fish that naturally grows from the Mekong river delta. Thinking of the local “hito,” Mindanao fish growers easily relates to it. (davaotoday.com photo)
By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today
A strange fish circled its way around the narrow confines of an aquarium that attracted crowds around the Vitarich booth in a recent Mindanao investment forum here. It had the head of a catfish, which reminds Mindanao growers of the local hito, but with the flat body of most saltwater fish. According to the posters that Vitarich posted on the wall, this catfish can grow as big as a shark.
George Ka Oris Madlos, the Mindanao spokesperson of the National Democratic Front.(davaotoday.com photo)
By Grace S. Uddin
Davao Today
Communists in Mindanao say the deep economic crisis of capitalist countries like the US is a favorable opportunity to strengthen the Communist Party and to raise the people’s struggle to a higher level.
Various designs of the dagmay(davaotoday.com photo)
By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today
Among the Mandayas, the dagmay has been worn as womens skirts but it is also used as blankets and to wrap the dead. Each design, however, carries with it a certain story. Most of the traditional designs, which can easily date back to over a hundred years, have come to them in dreams.
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance | Davao Today
With all remaining options including attempts at another Cha-Cha diminishing the whole nation should brace for some extreme measures being resorted to in 2009.
Convenors of Interfaith Movement for Peace and the Release of Cammayo and Tumol (IMPACT) welcome 1Lt. Vicente Cammayo (right) during his release on Jan. 6. Escorted by the New People’s Army custodial force and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Cammayo was released in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, after being held as “prisoner of war” for almost two months. According to the Merardo Arce Command of the NPA, Cammayo was the team leader of the 11th company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion of the AFP who surrendered on Nov. 7 last year when his unit was ambushed by the NPA in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. His release, according to the NPA regional command, is a “gesture of goodwill” in celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines’s 40th anniversary. (davaotoday.com photos by Barry Ohaylan)
