President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to attend the Mindanao Environmental Summit 2016 at the Ateneo de Davao University on Thursday afternoon, August 4.
Roxas Avenue was cleared of street venders mostly food, used clothing and massage therapists by Wednesday night, August 3 after Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio ordered its closure upon the recommendation of traffic and transport chief Rhodelio Poliquit.
The City Health Office (CHO) sees the establishment of public lying-in centers in communities as a strategy to reduce maternal and infant mortality rate.
President Rodrigo Duterte said that he will go after employers who will continue with the practice of contractualizing workers.
Mayor Sara Duterte has issued another warning against health officials here if they fail to curb the rising number of dengue-related deaths.
To accommodate the huge pack of tourist coming in and out in the city, Councilor Al Ryan Alejandre said the City Council would seek additional local and international flights in Francisco Bangoy International Airport here.
President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated that he wants to achieve a successful truce with the armed groups in the country who are carrying political ideologies during his term.
The New People’s Army captive in Davao Oriental has appealed to government military to pull out its forward troops to give way to the resumption of the peace negotiations with the Communist-led insurgency.
The Communist Party of the Philippines announced that it will declare a unilateral ceasefire on August 20, the day scheduled for the formal resumption of peace talks in Oslo, Norway.
A pregnant Lumad woman died while seven other individuals, five of whom are minors, were wounded after an alleged member of a paramilitary group indiscriminately fired at a crowd gathered for a wedding Saturday morning.
