CARD Microfinance institution expands to Mindanao
Torres said CARD banks provide loans as low as P5,000 to start a small and micro-business with 2% monthly interest and zero collateral.
GRIEVING FOR THEIR SLAIN MOTHER. The daughters of slain Barug Katawhan leader Cristina Jose cry in sorrow on their mother’s coffin Tuesday in Poblacion village, Baganga town, Davao Oriental. Jose was shot to death Monday by three motorcycle-riding men while she was on her way to Davao City. Her family said she was killed for defending the Pablo victims’ rights and interests. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Groups slam Aquino’s ‘bloody’ human rights record of 152 killings
Karapatan presented initial reports that 152 extrajudicial killings occurred under Aquino's term in the past three years. The group's secretary general Cristina Palabay said "at least one extrajudicial killing per week was committed by state security forces under Aquino."
Another broadcaster shot dead in Tagum City
Butalid is the third journalist killed in the country in the past three weeks, all in Mindanao, following Joas Dignos in Valencia, Bukidnon on November 29 and Michael Milo in Surigao City on December 9.
NPA, human rights group claim Comval tribal leader killed by AFP troops
Karapatan’s secretary general Hanimay Suazo said Pedro Tinga, a 57-year old tribal leader in Barangay Malamodao, was killed in an operation by the Philippine Army’s Alpha Company of the 71st Battalion last Friday.
Housing woes of Pablo survivors in Davao Oriental
Like Normelinda, thousands of other families in Cateel, Boston and Baganga towns have been living in temporary shelters such as ‘bunkhouses’ built by the government or in ‘shelter tents’ donated by aid groups.