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Photo of Allan Redubla (courtesy of Karapatan)

Family asks banana firm to release son held incommunicado

Post author:JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Post published:July 20, 2013
Post category:Headline Human Rights
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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today

The Rotto Fresh International Traders, a Cavendish banana plantation company in Compostela, Compostela Valley allegedly detained Redubla on suspicion that he helped New People’s Army guerillas in burning the company’s backhoe last July 13.

LOGS, EVERYWHERE. Thousands of logs are stored in Baganga town’s port area where the lumber company Baganga Plywood Corporation is also located. Edgar Ladjao, a local of Davao Oriental, said logging has not stopped in the province despite the total log ban ordered by President Noynoy Aquino in February 2011. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle L. Saligumba)

Eye in the Sky vs. illegal logging

Post author:DAVAO TODAY
Post published:July 18, 2013
Post category:Environment Headline
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Can drones or the eye in the sky help save our dwindling forests?

Fears, skepticism meet ASEAN connectivity

Post author:JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Post published:July 18, 2013
Post category:Business Headline
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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today

“There is no product to export (once) we’ll be flooded with (ASEAN products); all the farmers will be jobless here,” said Phil Export XI executive director Conrado T. Hernaez in a press conference at Marco Polo Hotel Wednesday.

Foreign peace advocates score “neglected” condition in Typhoon Pablo areas

Post author:TYRONE A. VELEZ
Post published:July 18, 2013
Post category:Headline Human Rights
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By TYRONE A. VELEZ
Davao Today

“My taxes are sent (here) for military aid. Money should build roads, should be given to health care, decent things for the people, not military aid,” says Ron Gochez of Union del Barro, Los Angeles.

[Prints and Traces] The Pork Barrel Menace

Post author:DON J. PAGUSARA
Post published:July 18, 2013
Post category:Headline Opinion Today's Views
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By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today

For what really is this goddamn pork barrel? Why is this a modus vivendi in our legislative system, first of all?

Family asks banana firm to release son held incommunicado

Eye in the Sky vs. illegal logging

Fears, skepticism meet ASEAN connectivity

Foreign peace advocates score “neglected” condition in Typhoon Pablo areas

[Prints and Traces] The Pork Barrel Menace

For Bangsamoro voters, first parliamentary polls carry hopes for peace, progress

Mindanao labor groups urge neutral, peaceful BARMM polls

Comelec ready for first BARMM parliamentary elections

‘Secure the ballot, don’t intimidate voters’: Watchdog on BARMM poll security

New anti-poverty chief Pacquiao under scrutiny