Mindanao rights advocates question De Lima’s ‘good’ human rights report to US legislators

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “What De Lima has reported to US Congressmen is an utter distortion and denial of the country’s human rights situation”-- Hanimay Suazo, secretary general, Karapatan in Southern Mindanao

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P311 million budget for teachers’ yearly medical check-up sought

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Pursuant to the mandate, Section 22 of the Magna Carta for Public School Teachers or Republic Act 4670 provides for compulsory medical examination “free of charge for all teachers before they take up teaching, and shall be repeated not less than once a year during the teacher's professional life.”

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Rare spring falls in Cotabato declared a tourism site

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Unlike most other waterfalls, not a river or any body of water exists above it. The water simply gushes out from rock formations in a cliff at the edge of a hill. A great portion of the cliff is covered with grasses resembling large green curtains.

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