Read more about the article Teacher crosses 42 rivers, walks for 2 days to reach village school
MISFI Academy teacher Ricky Balilid (Ivy Jean Tupas/davaotoday.com)

Teacher crosses 42 rivers, walks for 2 days to reach village school

Some teachers in the country have to cross rivers and mountains just to be able to reach a community that has never seen a teacher or has not known education.

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Read more about the article 40 families to be evacuated for fear of landslide
Photos courtesy of Davao City Information Office

40 families to be evacuated for fear of landslide

About 40 families here are ordered on Friday, October 6 by the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council to move out from their residences where the area has been ?considered “highly dangerous zones”.

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Read more about the article NUPL to Duterte: silencing the Ombudsman means tyranny
President Rodrigo Duterte (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

NUPL to Duterte: silencing the Ombudsman means tyranny

The move of President Rodrigo Duterte to silence the Office of the Ombudsman and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines did not sit well with the National Union of People's Lawyers, describing such as a sign of the President’s “tyrannical tendencies.”

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Read more about the article DENR’s Cimatu the right man ‘for polluters’, says group
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administers the oath of office for the newly-apppointed Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu prior to the start of the 15th Cabinet Meeting at the State Dining Room of Malacañan Palace on May 7, 2017. Also in the photo is Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence Go. (Richard Madelo/Presidential Photo)

DENR’s Cimatu the right man ‘for polluters’, says group

The speedy confirmation of Roy Cimatu as the secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) only confirms that he is “the right man for big business plunderers and polluters,” an environmental group said.

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