Catholic schools oppose review of income & tax exempt-status
By MART D. SAMBALUD Davao Today DAVAO CITY -- Private Catholic school owners want the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to scrap a new policy requiring them to file annual…
"Tacloban City is no more. God must have been somewhere else." - Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. (screen grab from Davao City Information Office YouTube account)
Duterte pins down Bangayan in Senate probe; Bangayan taken into NBI custody
The awaited appearance of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on the Senate's inquiry helped pinned Davidson Bangayan for his involvement in smuggling imported rice.
NEW SIGNS IN CHINATOWN. The Davao Chinatown Development Council unveiled a prototype street sign along Monteverde-Lizada featuring Chinese dragons holding durians atop their mouths to symbolize the uniqueness of Davawenyo Chinese. The council will build 60 street signs in the streets of Chinatown until mid-2014. (Tyrone A. Velez/davaotoday.com)
Davao City Chinatown eyes dev’t with sisterhood pact
he Davao City Chinatown Development Council (DCCDC) would be inking a sisterhood agreement with the Quezon City Chinatown Council on Friday, in time with the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Rebels tending to farm amidst firefight
A breakaway Moro guerrilla group in Central Mindanao said the main bulk of its forces were out of harm's way of government military artillery shellings and that its forces were divided into engaging in gunbattles or planting and indoctrination of its mass base.
REENACTING THE HORROR. Children of Barangay Mangayon, town of Compostela, Compostela Valley dramatize how they were harassed and forced by government soldiers to act as guides in their counter-insurgency operations . This was part of the Save Our Schools: Children's Camp launched by child advocates in Panansalan, Compostela last October 29 to call for the protection of children's rights in the observance of Children's Month. (file photo)
Army presence halted Lumad school classes
A children’s advocacy group said classes were disrupted as school children were “too afraid to go to school” after military troops “encamped” in their classrooms in a farflung village in Compostela, Compostela Valley province.