by GRACE S. UDDIN
May 04, 2008
On their way to Davao city, workers from the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao del Norte braved road inspections, ‘surprise checkpoints’ before they were able to join the Labor Day rally to express their demands for the P125 across-the-board wage increase, for government to bring down prices of basic commodities, including rice.
by DAVAO TODAY
Apr 27, 2008
The 39th commemoration of Earth Day is an occasion for Mindanaoans and all patriotic Filipinos to call for the accountability…
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.