by ACE R. MORANDANTE
Apr 27, 2008
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 ACE R. MORANDANTE
Apr 27, 2008
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)
by ACE R. MORANDANTE
Apr 13, 2008
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)
by DAVAO TODAY
Apr 13, 2008
A young woman frowns at the sight of surging prices of rice, a kilo of which costs only 24 pesos,…
by DAVAO TODAY
Apr 06, 2008
Public Trust Media Group, publisher of Newsbreak, and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), are inviting interested students to…
by DAVAO TODAY
Mar 15, 2008
DAVAO CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) and the City Health Office (CHO) conducted a second Free No-Scalpel Vasectomy…
by DAVAO TODAY
Mar 15, 2008
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.
by DAVAO TODAY
Mar 08, 2008
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.
by DAVAO TODAY
Mar 01, 2008
The Department of Health (DOH) has identified five areas in Davao City endemic to dengue fever. Dr. Ma. Socorro D….