MANILA, Philippines — Election watchdog Kontra Daya warned against rigging of votes from Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in…
According to Kabataan partylist, CHED granted the tuition increase even before consultations in schools for such an increase has yet to be completed. It said the hike came after a meeting between President Arroyo and COCOPEA, the organization of private schools. The CHED’s “unilateral and shameless act shows the commission’s subservience and capitulation to strong pressure from school owners even at the expense of students.”
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticised comments from Sri Lanka opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe which argued that Sri…
Argel Kiawan, 14 and an incoming second-year high-school student, does some spade work outside the Magallanes Elementary School, which pays him 100 pesos a day. Kiawan says his family is poor so he needs to find work for his lunch money and daily school allowance. That a minor like him was hired by a public school to do manual labor likewise underscores the problem of child labor in Davao City and the flagrant violation even by government officials of the country’s child-labor laws.
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Back to Work. The City Council resumed its session on Monday, but this time at the conference room because the session hall, which was being spruced up, was reeking with paint fumes. davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan
Delegates and participants at the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) World Congress in Moscow put the rights of women in media at the top of the agenda in an effort to press demands for an end to media stereotyping and discrimination.
Analysis | No election has been fair and square. In the recent elections, the outcome has been decided by one’s political hold on the Commission on Elections — and the numerous compromises that powerful election authorities make with the highest bidders to rig the elections.
DAVAO CITY — The rise in international visitor arrivals has been supporting the peso appreciation this year, which is expected…
MAITUM, Sarangani, Philippines — Camera club members from the cities of Davao and General Santos shot their way to the…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely saddened by reports that Cavite-based freelance photojournalist Dodie Nu�ez was killed in…
