The Sports Festival is a program of the Duterte Game Plan (DGP) or the Comprehensive Sports Program to promote healthy, proactive communities through sports and recreation.
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) paraded an effigy of United States President Barack Obama in a chariot dragged by President Benigno Aquino III mocked as a dog to symbolize Aquino’s subservience to United States’ dictates. Davao Today photographer Ace Morandante is in Manila to cover the protest march against Obama’s visit. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Davao youth activists burn a mock United States flag while a teen girl dressed symbolically as Inang Bayan (Mother Nation) clenched her fist, in a protest during the state visit of US President Barack Obama. Activists slam the signing of the Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation (AECD) that would usher more presence of American troops. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
This Tuesday April 29, the critically-acclaimed movie Norte : Hangganan ng Kasaysayan (North, the End of History) by Mindanao-born director Lav Diaz will have its one-time special screening at the Abreeza Mall Cinema at 6:30 pm.
Raising awareness, action and accountability of government on disaster response were stressed in a summit on climate change attended by some 100 journalists all over Mindanao.
On Earth Day, our hearts throb synchronous with the rhythm of the epic song of the Lumad balyan, the keeper of the cherished annals of the tribe. I imagine I engage in a one-on-one intersubjectivity with him as he reechoes his epic tales. . .
Members of the underground revolutionary National Democratic Front staged a surprise rally at the busy Bankerohan Public Market celebrating its 41st anniversary. (davaotoday.com)
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said that a New People’s Army (NPA) leader had asked him to help the Manobo evacuees who left their homes three weeks ago because of alleged abuses and threats perpetrated by the Army.
New People’s Army guerillas released an Army officer here after holding him for 19 days amid repeated requests from the soldier’s wife and brokers from Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and a religious group.
Small sari-sari store and carinderia owners here scored as “anti-poor” policy the new Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) memorandum requiring them to file income tax returns and to issue receipts to customers.
