Economy

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)


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Newsbreak, AusAID launch journalism internship program for Mindanao students

Public Trust Media Group, publisher of Newsbreak, and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), are inviting interested students to apply for limited slots in the Journalism Internship Program for…

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RP call centers reel from world’s highest turnover

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.

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