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Volunteers, environment group cite lapses in TreeVolution

Volunteers, environment group cite lapses in TreeVolution

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Oct 02, 2014

Organizers of the Mindanao-wide reforestation event in Davao last week issued a public apology after a number of volunteers and participants told news organizations and swarmed the social media about the unannounced inaccessibility of the planting sites to public transport.

Farmers to lose lands in DavOr palm-oil shift

Farmers to lose lands in DavOr palm-oil shift

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Oct 01, 2014

Survivors of Typhoon Pablo doubted that the government’s plan to shift to planting palm oil from coconut trees in Davao Oriental will help them recover from the 2012 disaster, saying it will only “intensify land-grabbing” of their farm and ancestral lands.

Asian migrants, youth groups support Hong Kong’s strikers

Asian migrants, youth groups support Hong Kong’s strikers

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Oct 01, 2014

BAYAN Hong Kong, the militant alliance of national democratic people’s organisations of Filipinos in Hong Kong and Macau SARs, said they sympathize with the Hong Kong people, “who in their desire to effect change and reforms are met with brutality and excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.”