Mindanao

NoCot notes dramatic decrease in Malaria cases

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Jul 30, 2012

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

The result is attributed to the Department of Health’s (DOH) coordination with its partner organizations and agencies to employ “key interventions with regard to malaria control.”

North Cotabato women thumb down PNoy

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Jul 26, 2012

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today

While the women in the labor force seethe under the Aquino administration, the peasant women feel no better. In fact they have long been disgruntled over what they call a continuing apathy of Aquino administration on their rights and interests.

Groups question Arroyo’s release, call for her prosecution

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Jul 25, 2012

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

“The case is very weak and was only filed to make it appear that PNoy is running after GMA but actually it is accommodating the hated (former) president. Truth to tell, PNoy is not serious in making GMA and her cohorts accountable for their crimes against the Filipino people.” — Atty. Carlos Zarate, Bayan Muna Vice-President for Mindanao.

Photo Essay: Criticisms and alternatives mark People’s Sona

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Jul 24, 2012

Photos by MEDEL V. HERNANI, ACE R. MORANDANTE & TYRONE A. VELEZ
Text by MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN

Assessing Aquino’s performance since 2012, various sectors and organizations criticized his administration on different issues, thus, giving him a “failing mark.” They said, regional issues “depict the worsening plight of workers, farmers, the urban poor, consumers, and intensified threat to the environment.”

Protesting PNoy’s Sona fashionably

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Jul 23, 2012

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today

While many of the members of the Congress have their attire haute couture and not a few designed by the country’s top fashion (read: expensive) designers like Pitoy Moreno , nationalist lawmakers like Ilagan opted to stay grounded just like the people she vowed to serve.

Great and not so great expectations in SONA

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Jul 22, 2012

By MICK M. BASA & MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN

Before he stands on the podium and delivers the Sona, Davao Today gathered the thoughts of the President’s “bosses” — the Filipinos.  What do they expect or want to hear during his Sona?