Read more about the article 40 families to be evacuated for fear of landslide
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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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Read more about the article Davao film tells painful stories of minors trafficked for sex
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Davao film tells painful stories of minors trafficked for sex

To unfold the alarming cases of prostitution in Davao City, non-governmental organization Talikala Inc. has produced a documentary film of three young girls involved in the sex trade.

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Read more about the article ‘What’s her FB?’: Talikala exposes online child prostitution scheme
Talikala shares a screenshot of a Facebook conversation that involves trafficking of minors in Davao City. (Mick Basa / davaotoday.com)

‘What’s her FB?’: Talikala exposes online child prostitution scheme

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – A non-governmental organization received a report that a social media network has become a platform for children prostitution in this city. Jeanette Laurel-Ampog, executive director of…

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