DCPO mounts road clearing operations on illegally parked, unlicensed vehicles

In an attempt to discipline motorists, prevent road accidents and lessen the road congestion, the Davao City Police Office will implement a road clearing operation in the city, an official announced on Wednesday.

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Read more about the article Families of 392 political prisoners support 3rd round of GRP-NDFP peace talks
Farmers and Lumad march from the ? the National Commission for Indigenous Peoples Region XI office to the Benigno S. Aquino Hall of Justice in Ecoland, here to call for the release of political prisoners and the dismissal of "trumped up" charges against them on Wednesday morning, August 24. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Families of 392 political prisoners support 3rd round of GRP-NDFP peace talks

On the eve of the third round of the peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, human rights advocates are lamenting that almost 400 political prisoners in the Philippines remain in jail even with President Rodrigo Duterte’s earlier promise to free them.

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Heavy rains, flooding displace thousands in Northern Mindanao, Eastern Visayas

A total of seven persons died and 4,536 persons are currently staying in 28 evacuation centers in Northern Mindanao and parts of Eastern Visayas after a low-pressure area and a tail end of a cold front brought heavy rains on Monday.

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Read more about the article Random views: ‘Duterte’s threat to declare Martial law is too much’
President Rodrigo Duterte. (Kiwi Bulaclac/Presidential Photo)

Random views: ‘Duterte’s threat to declare Martial law is too much’

Liza Madagas, 43, a daughter of a Martial law victim said that President Rodrigo Duterte’s new threat about on declaring Martial law was “too much.”

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