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LUMAD STUDENT. A Lumad student studies her lesson inside a makeshift tent in UCCP Haran evacuation center on Thursday, January 18. ?More than? 70 students are ?still holding their classes in the evacuation center since they fled home in 2015 ?to avoid alleged harassment from ?soldiers. (Photo courtesy of Kath Cortez)

Briones challenged to demonstrate how distance learning can be done in remote communities

With low enrolment and problems in the distance learning program in public schools, ACT Teachers Party-list France Castro challenged Education Secretary Leonor Briones to demonstrate how this can be done in poor communities all over the country.

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Read more about the article Back-riding for motorcycles to be approved soon
Local government health staff check the temperatures of motorists and passengers before they are allowed to enter the town of Tagoloan in Barangay Casinglot, at the border of Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Back-riding for motorcycles to be approved soon

Calls to allow motorcycles to carry passengers have gained ground as the Davao City Council passed a resolution urging the national government to allow this practice.

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Read more about the article Misamis Oriental LGUs prepared to take in stranded residents
Wearing protective suits, government personnel assist the returning overseas Filipino workers upon arriving at the Laguindingan Airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental before going to their respective hometowns in Mindanao on Monday (May 26). Two sweeper flights flew in the 333 OFWs who were stranded in Metro Manila to Mindanao after spending more than two months following the declaration of enhanced community quarantine protocol in Luzon. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Misamis Oriental LGUs prepared to take in stranded residents

Provincial officials of Misamis Oriental said they are prepared to welcome stranded residents and overseas workers returning to their hometowns.

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Read more about the article Lumad congresswoman questions closure of another Lumad school in Mindanao
GUEST OF HONOR. University of the Philippines Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan, leads the awarding of diploma during the graduation ceremony of the Lumad school, Community Technical College of Southern Mindanao (CTCSM), in Maco, Compostela Valley on Monday, April 2, 2018. Tan is known for hosting thousands of Lumad joining a protest caravan from Mindanao to Manila against militarization of Lumad communities and schools. (Mara S. Genotiva/davaotoday.com)

Lumad congresswoman questions closure of another Lumad school in Mindanao

The closure of another Lumad school in Davao Region prompted a Lumad leader in Congress to question the Department of Education if they are acting on the interests of the Lumad children who are now denied of another community school.

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Read more about the article CDO mayor warns labs, firms for COVID-19 tests sans gov’t consultation
Cagayan de Oro Mayor Oscar Moreno (Jigger Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

CDO mayor warns labs, firms for COVID-19 tests sans gov’t consultation

Mayor Oscar Moreno warned private clinics conducting rapid diagnostic tests, especially to persons returning to their workplaces, that they will be facing legal action if they continue to do so without coordination from government health authorities.

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