A group of exporters stressed that the long-term solution to the banana industry’s existing security issues is to resume peace talks between the government and the communist rebels.
Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and his brother-in-law Manases Carpio said on Monday, September 4, that they are willing to attend the Senate hearing over allegations of their involvement in drug smuggling.
Lumad and Moro delegates of this year’s Lakbayan of National Minorities gather for the 2nd Assembly of SANDUGO or the alliance of national minorities on Monday, September 4, at the University of the Philippines – Diliman campus. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
A leading pediatric group in the country is recommending against in-school random drug testing because there’s not enough evidence to show its effectiveness.
A seven-year-old boy survived an attack that killed his parents on Saturday night, September 2, human rights group Karapatan said.
Former House Speaker Prospero Nograles on Saturday, September 2, reiterated his support to President Rodrigo Duterte and vowed his loyalty to Duterte’s family, turning around a political feud that stretched for decades.
There was no truth to reports that the local government of Kapalong blocked barred a team of social workers from conducting a one-stop shop service to a Lumad community, the mayor of the town said on Sunday, September 3.
Leaders of non-Islamized indigenous tribes in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are taking a “non-confrontational approach” to demand for a revision of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), a bill that has been filed in Congress which they say still lacks provisions that will protect their right to ancestral domain.
A fisherman prepares his net before he sails to catch fish in the waters of Barangay Loguilo, in Alubijid town, Misamis Oriental, on Saturday, September 2. Fishing has remained as one of the villagers’ main source of income. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte said he is opening the country’s borders to its neighbors to help hunt down jihadist militants that have been spreading terror in Southeast Asia.
