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Read more about the article Pleading for mercy: Solons file House reso as calls mount to spare OFW on death row

Pleading for mercy: Solons file House reso as calls mount to spare OFW on death row

Gabriela Women’s partylist Rep. Emmi De Jesus and Arlene Brosas filed House Resolution 829 on Wednesday, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to seek executive clemency ?from the ?United Arab Emirates government ?for an overseas Filipino worker from General Santos City who is facing an execution.

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Read more about the article ?’Barbaric, un-Islamic?’: Mindanao solons? hit? ?A?bu Sayyaf’s? ?beheading of German hostage 
Rep. Ruby Sahali, chairperson of the Special Committee on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity during the second round of the formal talks between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Oslo, Norway last October 2016. Beside her is House Deputy Speaker Bai Sandra Sema. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

?’Barbaric, un-Islamic?’: Mindanao solons? hit? ?A?bu Sayyaf’s? ?beheading of German hostage 

Moro lawmakers on Wednesday condemned ??as "barbaric" and “un-Islamic" the Abu Sayyaf Group's beheading of 70-year old German national Jurgen Kantner?.

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Read more about the article Army welcomes Mayor Sara Duterte’s talks with NPA
New People's Army guerillas gather in Paquibato district in Davao City on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 for the celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines' 48th founding anniversary. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

Army welcomes Mayor Sara Duterte’s talks with NPA

A government anti-terrorist unit here said it welcomed the upcoming talks of Mayor Sara Duterte and the New People's Army, armed-wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

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Read more about the article Green groups in Davao back Lopez, ask CA to confirm env’t chief
FOR THE CHILDREN. Norma Javellana, 70, an official of Tambayan Center for Children's Rights, Inc joins the call for the confirmation of Environment Secretary-designate Gina Lopez in a rally held Wednesday in Roxas Avenue, Davao City. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Green groups in Davao back Lopez, ask CA to confirm env’t chief

In his message, AdDU school president Fr. Joel Tabora said it is only now that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has a leader who is “passionate about the environment.”

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Read more about the article Green group wants DENR to ban arsenic in wood treatment
FINISHING TOUCH. A carpenter applies varnish to this foldable wooden chair along Davao City’s Boulevard Street. A set of foldable wooden table and two chairs costs 1,500 pesos. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Green group wants DENR to ban arsenic in wood treatment

The EcoWaste Coalition urged Monday the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to permanently ban the use of arsenic, a known carcinogen, for the treatment and preservation of wood.

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