The 11 candidates to this year’s Hiyas ng Kadayawan pose for the cameras in a press conference on Thursday, August 10 at the Star Hotel in Davao City. The candidates were selected by their tribes to represent them to the competition which will be held on August 18. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
The Davao Light and Power Company announced Thursday it will conduct a 10-minute power interruption on August 13 and 14 in Panacan and Tibungco.
The Davao City Investment Promotion Center (DCIPC) has recently partnered with top real estate website Lamudi to train Davao’s homegrown real estate brokers and to gear them up for the digitization of real estate marketing.
The local town officials in Lanao del Sur are asking help from the regional and provincial government to help them address livelihood problems brought by the crisis in Marawi City that has dragged on to its 80th day since the siege laid by extremists started on May 23.
A member of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives expressed deep concern on Thursday over the recent announcement of Armed Forces Chief, Gen. Eduardo Año of putting a monetary reward for every New People’s Army killed or captured by state forces.
The Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights and its partner indigenous communities commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this occasion, we offer our observations on how the government has addressed the rights of indigenous peoples. Despite the enactment and implementation of the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA) 20 years ago and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) 10 years ago, we find no significant changes to the situation and enjoyment of rights of indigenous peoples in the Philippines.
Around 1,500 Lumads and Moro people from Mindanao will be travelling to Manila this year to join a protest caravan of national minorities from across the country, a Lumad group announced on Thursday here.
The son-in-law of slain Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa, Jake Bolanio Dela Cruz died in a shoot out with police here on Wednesday.
A Philippine senator said the country should have more barangay nutrition scholars to address the problems of the health sector including malnutrition.
More rural villagers are expected to arrive at the evacuation center in the municipality of Opol, Misamis Oriental after a group of armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army were seen in the town’s four hinterland communities since last week, the mayor said Wednesday.
