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Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Jesus G. Dureza and GRP chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III during the fourth round of talks on April 6, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Gov’t to pursue peace with communists despite cancelled talks

The government is not bound to turn its back from its pursuit to peace in the south despite the collapsed negotiations with the Communist Part of the Philippines, a presidential adviser said.

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Read more about the article 2,500 food packs back to DSWD-11 warehouse after aborted visit
Photos courtesy of Ryan Kim Pescadera/Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)

2,500 food packs back to DSWD-11 warehouse after aborted visit

A team of social workers from the Department of Social Welfare and Development is returning to Manila after they were refused entry by the tribal leaders in Davao del Norte for their one-stop service Thursday, Aug. 31.

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Talks of Life

I was, for the longest time, (and still am, to a certain extent) considered an ingglesera, an epithet that I did not particularly mind. In my mind it was, as I was growing up, an unavoidability. As a child I loved to read (and still do), but aside from the delightfully written and illustrated Ibong Adarna books (which I adored but eventually outgrew), there were almost no non-English books for young readers back in the day. My family also had the middle-class predilection for American TV shows and movies, encouraged in no small way by local programming dominated by noontime shows and melodramas.

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HISTORIC. Delegates of this year’s “Lakbayan of National Minorities” meet with farmers and peasants who have been conducting a camp out at the historic Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Thursday, August 31. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

HISTORIC

Delegates of this year’s “Lakbayan of National Minorities” meet with farmers and peasants who have been conducting a camp out at the historic Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Thursday, August 31. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article Lakbayan to expose Duterte’s anti-people policies
MINDANAO TO MANILA. More than 2,500 delegates for this year’s “Lakbayan of National Minorities” arrive in Manila Thursday, Aug. 31 after days of travel from various parts of the country, including Mindanao. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

Lakbayan to expose Duterte’s anti-people policies

Thousands of “Lakbayan” delegates from various parts of the Philippines have now hit the streets of the Philippine capital of Manila after days of journey. Some came from Mindanao and Visayas, while others from the edge of Luzon.

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