Cotabato City — The Mindanao State University (MSU) system is collaborating with the Philippine Environmental Governance (EcoGov) project of the…
The local economy is starting to get its share of the International Labor Organization’s projected 20 million global job loss…
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN | Davao Today
According to the Transport of Southern Mindanao for Solidarity, Independence and Nationalism (Transmision) computations, a driver who consumes an average of 30 liters per day loses 747.30 pesos in his day’s income compared to the 2005 level. The one-peso fare hike allows the driver to recover 250 pesos of this lost income, if he maintains the average number of passengers in a day. But he still has to contend with the 497.30 pesos deficit.
Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza said Malacanang’s economic managers should stop sugarcoating the global financial crisis and its impact…
Davao City- Nursing professionals from member countries of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia- Malaysia-the Philippines East Asian Growth Area (Bimp-Eaga) are joining…
The opposing views proliferating in the media on whether the U.S. financial meltdown will have an extensive impact on the…
SHANTIES. A giant billboard stands obtrusively against the shanties along the riverbank of Davao River. About one third of Filipinos are living below the poverty line, their condition worsened by rising inflation, which registered a 17-year high last month. The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) reported in its latest poverty survey released in May that the number of ” poor” Filipinos grew from 23.8 million in 2003 to 27.6 million in 2006. (Photo by Keith Bacongco / AKP Images)
The deep problems of the imperialist-dominated world capitalist system are in very sharp focus today. The majority of humanity has…
Davao City-The island of Mindanao registered a 7.2 percent economic growth from 2006 to 2007. An assessment by the Mindanao…
Davao City-Consumer education will be part of the curriculum of public and private high schools nationwide by School Year 2009-2010….
