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Davao broadcaster jailed for libel is depressed, thinks of suicide

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Nov 06, 2007

Silenced and Abandoned. Lex Adonis inside the Ma-a city jail in June. (davaotoday.com photo)

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today

Gladys Adonis, the wife of jailed Davao Alexander “Lex” Adonis, said her husband has been admitted to the prison hospital in early October.
She said Adonis, an anchorman of Bombo Radio-Davao sentenced to four and a half years in prison early this year, had been feeling utterly “abandoned and depressed,” and is thinking of ending his life.

The fugitive of Talaingod

The fugitive of Talaingod

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Oct 23, 2007

Datu Guibang Apoga, the chieftain of the Ata-Manobo tribe in the hinterlands of Talaingod, has been in hiding for a decade now.

In Mindanao, war shatters the Ramadan

In Mindanao, war shatters the Ramadan

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Oct 18, 2007

The military continued attacking Muslim communities even during the Ramadan, according to human-rights and Moro groups. “When entire communities get displaced by war, how are you going to celebrate Ramadan?” one of them asked. “Ramadan completely loses its meaning. Foremost in your mind, when you’re in an evacuation center, is how to survive, where to look for food, or to keep yourself from being harassed, or get hit by a bomb.”

Duterte wants child-protection law scrapped

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Oct 03, 2007

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

Duterte said teenagers today are different from those in the past and, at 15, he believed a boy already has discernment. He also thought the Juvenile Justice Law, which says children below 15 cannot be held criminally liable, is open to abuse — a lot of criminals could get away with crime because of this, he said. He called the law myopic and impractical.

Davao’s child workers searching for ‘angels’

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Oct 03, 2007

The Department of Labor and Employment said it invite companies, organizations and individuals who can become a �donor, sponsor, friend, or a supporter� to provide services — food, clothing, shelter, mentoring, livelihood, educational, medical assistance, work and training opportunities — for Southern Mindanao’s child laborers.

AFP ‘test missions’ during Ramadhan slammed

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Oct 01, 2007

�It is difficult for our brothers and sisters in the war-torn areas of Basilan to observe one of the important pillars of Islam when the guns and bombs of the Philippine Army are aimed at them,� said Amirah Ali Lidasan of Suara Bangsamoro, adding that Moro civilians are vulnerable to the military operation conducted during Ramadhan for most of them are weak due to whole day of fasting.