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Read more about the article Violence against women driven by economic abuse still high in Davao City
HELPLESS. A mother sat helplessly with her two children while they look at a demolition team destroy their house in Barangay 26-C Salmonan last date.(Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Violence against women driven by economic abuse still high in Davao City

The IGDD deals with around 10 to 15 VAW clients in a day, on top of new cases reported, according to Mandin.

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Read more about the article Millions worth of cigarettes with ‘fake’ stamps seized in CDO
BUSTED. Using a detection device, an official Bureau of Internal Revenue in Northern Mindanao checks the stamps of reams of cigarettes that were confiscated by authorities in Cagayan de Oro on Thursday, March 7, 2019. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Millions worth of cigarettes with ‘fake’ stamps seized in CDO

Truckloads of cigarettes worth millions of pesos bearing fake Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) stamps were confiscated by authorities in a warehouse in Barangay Kauswagan on Thursday, March 7.

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Read more about the article Lowering inflation no significance on poor Filipinos, solon claims
MUSCLE-FLEXING. Porters in Davao City’s Bankerohan Public Market are paid as low as PHP 15 for every 100 kilos of goods to transport. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

Lowering inflation no significance on poor Filipinos, solon claims

Poor Filipinos are not happy with the 3.8% inflation rate as the surge of prices of basic commodities in the past months have already put them into indebtedness and worsened poverty, a progressive lawmaker said.

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