A vendor chases a taxi along F. Torres street to sell his garlands of flowers to students about to graduate…
Planting Rice Is Never Fun. Now that rice prices almost double and rice supply continue to dwindle, militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas in Southern Mindanao agitate for increased NFA procurement of local rice and for government to dismantle existing rice cartel. More pictures here.
(davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
A young woman frowns at the sight of surging prices of rice, a kilo of which costs only 24 pesos,…
By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today
Two Davao athletes who bagged the gold in the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Thailand in December last year will fight it out for the qualifying rounds in Shenzhen, China, for the 2008 Beijing Olympics slated in August.
Teresita Edir, a pushcart vendor in Agdao market, and her children join a recent march organized by the group Kadamay demanding the ouster of President Arroyo. Edir complains that her earnings could hardly buy a kilo of rice. “In Erap’s time, we could buy rice at P10 a kilo,” she recalls the time of former President Joseph Estrada. “Now, rice is P18 per kilo under Gloria! With a president like her, life only gets harder. She’s corrupt and she has not done anything to alleviate the situation of poor.” (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Pencils and notebooks made in Germany and Switzerland, durable umbrellas, raincoats as big as blankets because European sizes are almost twice as big as average Filipino sizes, used toys curiously making their way to the Lumad communities in Mindanao.
From 7:30 a.m. to midnight, often up to the wee hours in the morning, the hum of construction work keeps people awake in the neighborhood at the back of the People Support and HSBC building along Jacinto Extension, where a four-story building to be rented out to a call center company is being built. Davao City is promoting itself as a haven for outsourcing. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
Landscaped and painted in bright pastels, the duplexes that make up the new women’s facility of the Ma-a city jail resemble a village that reminds inmates of home.
Lapida (gravestone), a homegrown rock band, in a concert dubbed “Metal March” along Claro M. Recto (formely Claveria) street during…
This unsigned tarpaulin hangs at Freedom Park along Roxas Boulevard. Rodolfo Lozada has gained both critics and admirers since he…
