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Mothers, kids bewail high price of rice

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Apr 01, 2008

Teresita Edir, a pushcart vendor in Agdao market, and her children join a recent march organized by the group Kadamay demanding the ouster of President Arroyo. Edir complains that her earnings could hardly buy a kilo of rice. “In Erap’s time, we could buy rice at P10 a kilo,” she recalls the time of former President Joseph Estrada. “Now, rice is P18 per kilo under Gloria! With a president like her, life only gets harder. She’s corrupt and she has not done anything to alleviate the situation of poor.” (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

The hum of business

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Mar 30, 2008

From 7:30 a.m. to midnight, often up to the wee hours in the morning, the hum of construction work keeps people awake in the neighborhood at the back of the People Support and HSBC building along Jacinto Extension, where a four-story building to be rented out to a call center company is being built. Davao City is promoting itself as a haven for outsourcing. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

Durian city

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Mar 26, 2008

A 25-foot structure of a lumad (indigenous) in a lotus position sits along the highway in the middle of Buda…

A hard day’s work for Mac Unday

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Mar 26, 2008

Mac Unday,13, pounds on a steel bar, protruding out of a cement post he finds in an abandoned lot on E. Jacinto Extension. If he succeeds in taking it out, the steel bar will sell at P11 per kilo in a junk shop. Mac has seven siblings. His mother, a laundrywoman, and his father, a housepainter, hardly earn anything in a day. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)