BT corn use to raise corn yield but farmers’ group wary

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Pedro Arnado, chairperson of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas-Davao, said farmers have complained of low incomes and bankruptcy due to their failure to pay mounting debts from traders in business with multinational genetically-modified seed producers.

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PH Cybercrime Law swamped with critics

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “It violates our constitutional right to freedom of speech.  The muzzling of public grievances and dissenting opinion is illegal under article 3 of the 1987 Constitution.  It is unlawful. It is unjust.  They stall us on the much needed reproductive health bill and freedom of information act and they railroad this down our throats?  Not only is it immoral, it is also stupid.” -- Pinoy rocker Nathan Peter Azarcon, Hijo frontman

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NPA wives ask AFP: do not harass us

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today Lyn-lyn Genita said her family was “traumatized” when five heavily armed military men stormed their house last September 21 in Barangay Pandaitan, Paquibato District.   The incident affected her daughter-in-law, who had just given birth to the point of bleeding, so much so that she is now admitted at the city’s Southern Philippines Medical Center.

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