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Read more about the article Groups slam gov’t for failure to address HR violations under martial law
WAR-TORN CITY. There is no silencing of the guns in Marawi City on the day President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his second State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 24. This is the latest photo of Banggolo District in Marawi City, the main battle area of the government troops and the terrorist Maute-ISIS taken Saturday, July 22. As ?Congress on its joint session approved the extension of Martial Law in Mindanao, death toll of the Philippine troops rises to 105 while 428 suspected terrorists are killed, as of 2 pm of July 22. (Photo by Divina M. Suson)

Groups slam gov’t for failure to address HR violations under martial law

Cases of human rights violations continue to pile up two years after martial law was declared in Mindanao resulting from the conflict in Marawi City that flared up on May 23, 2017, that ran for several months, civil society organizations said Friday.

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Read more about the article PH is losing farmers in the era of climate change, study says
WINDY RICE FIELD. December winds sweep past a farmer tossing a sack of newly harvested rice to his head in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato. (Kenette Jean Millondaga/davaotoday.com)

PH is losing farmers in the era of climate change, study says

The number of farmers in Davao City is decreasing in the midst of high demands on crop production for local and international consumption.

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Read more about the article Waste materials from Australia not illegal, says Customs official
A Bureau of Customs personnel checks the trash from South Korea before it was shipped back to its point of origin recently. Just this week another shipment of waste materials which came from Australia was put on hold by the Customs at the port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Waste materials from Australia not illegal, says Customs official

The close to a dozen container vans that arrived from Australia early this month were not toxic garbage but processed materials which will be used as fuel for a cement company’s manufacturing plants, said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) Thursday.

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7th Dabaw Lunhaw Awards to carry theme on environmental awareness

As the city is gearing for the 7th Dabaw Lunhaw Awards, its organizers said this year’s event, unlike in the past presentations, will carry a different theme that will help increase the awareness of the constituents on the most challenging environmental problem Davao City faces nowadays – the garbage.

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