The 39th commemoration of Earth Day is an occasion for Mindanaoans and all patriotic Filipinos to call for the accountability…
By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today
Davao city Mayor Rodrigo Duterte defended the revised Local Development Plan for Children (LDPC) against objections raised by the Catholic Church to the city’s reproductive health and safe pregnancy program. “God’s policy is antiquated and it cannot help the people who are reeling from poverty,” Duterte said during his weekly television program �Gikan sa Masa para sa Masa.�

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE
Davao Today
Families are having a hard time coping with the increasing price of rice amidst the reported local and global supply shortage.
A child dozes on her mother’s shoulder while waiting for their turn to buy NFA rice in Agdao public market. (Photo by Barry Ohaylan)

Planting Rice Is Never Fun. Now that rice prices almost double and rice supply continue to dwindle, militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas in Southern Mindanao agitate for increased NFA procurement of local rice and for government to dismantle existing rice cartel. More pictures here.
(davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
A young woman frowns at the sight of surging prices of rice, a kilo of which costs only 24 pesos,…
Public Trust Media Group, publisher of Newsbreak, and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), are inviting interested students to…
DAVAO CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) and the City Health Office (CHO) conducted a second Free No-Scalpel Vasectomy…
By AURELIO A. PENA | Davao Today
SPECIAL REPORT Despite efforts by the country’s call center companies to glamorize the industry, call center agents are resigning, job-hopping, transferring or being fired by the hundreds as fast as they are being hired. That image of a “successful call center executive making it in the business world� is lost to these call center agents who are just too glad to quit the industry.

UNVEILING. The inauguration of the Museo Dabawenyo highlights the grand opening of Araw ng Dabaw celebration. Created through a city ordinance, the nine million peso building houses city artifacts, documents and other priceless objects that speak of the city’s history, people and culture. The city government invites Davao’s oldest families to donate materials and other historical items for the museum. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
The US FDA defines aflatoxin as toxic compounds produced by certain strains of the aspergillus fungus; it is toxic and carcinogenic. Exposure to high level of aflatoxin, according to the DOST, produces acute necrosis or tissue death, as well as cirrhosis and carcinoma of the liver.