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ISKO STAYING ALIVE. The student mascot Isko (colloquial for Iskolar ng Bayan (Scholars of the Nation) shows a placard lamenting the death of youth scholars in state universities with the suicide of UP student Kristel Tejada due to "commercialization of education." Students staged a picket in front of the CHED regional office, Monday. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

CHED orders 6 schools closed

Six Bukidnon State University (BSU) external campuses were ordered closed after they were found remiss of the basic requirement to operate an educational institution, a Commission on Higher Education Department official said on Tuesday.

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Read more about the article Big fishing vessels seen in Davao City’s municipal fishing waters
TWILIGHT FISHING. A fisherman casts his net at nightfall in Naawan, Misamis Oriental. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

Big fishing vessels seen in Davao City’s municipal fishing waters

Some 100 fishermen from the coastal village of Lasang, this city, sought the help of the Sangguniang Panglunsod Tuesday to curb regular encroachment of big vessels in the coastal waters that they claimed has robbed them of their chance to catch fish in this part of the Davao Gulf.

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Read more about the article Today’s View : Rotten, rotten system [Prints & Traces]

Today’s View : Rotten, rotten system [Prints & Traces]

Imagine that! Big lump sums of money going to the personal discretion of the Congressmen and Senators who were blest with Noynoy’s benevolence? Did these sums of money go to projects? Haha! And why not all the legislators were given? If DAP funds are indeed meant for “Accelerated Development”, then where? What concretely are these development initiatives that the senators and congressmen [as recipients of the funds] have undertaken?

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