A performer inside a resort in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato plays the Kumbing (bamboo jaw’s harp) to entertain guests. In T’boli’s tradition, they play the Kumbing to call the moon back during an eclipse. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Weighers (locally referred to as scalers) in the Market 1 of the port of General Santos weigh at least 90 tons of fresh tuna daily. General Santos City has been touted as the tuna capital in the country. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Rudy Silva, 42, has been working as a laborer in General Santos City Fish Port Complex for five years. Here, Rudy, along with fish traders, loads tuna weighing at least 75 kilos each in an elf truck to travel to Davao City on a Sunday morning. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
SUPPORTERS. Thousands of supporters from different parts of the country gather at the San Pedro Square in Davao City to urge Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to run for president this coming 2016 elections. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
City Health Office Environment and Sanitation Division Chief Robert Oconer says that they will hold another round of seminar for ambulant venders on September 4 at the Davao City Recreation Center to teach them on proper food handling. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Members of progressive organizations are mulling to file Writ of Habeas Data against officials of the Crime Detection and Investigation Group to compel them to release the basis why activists were included in the line up of suspects who were charged with human trafficking and kidnapping of the more than 600 Lumad evacuees housed in a church compound in Davao City. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Gil Lestano, operation and maintenance chief of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines in Mindanao says they are requesting the local government units in Mindanao to draft laws to cut trees under the power transmission lines found in private lands. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Eden David, chief tourism officer of the Department of Tourism Region XI, says that the Davao Fun Sale helps promote the different provinces in the region to attract more tourists for the summer. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Bayan Muna representative Karlos Ysagani Zarate tells the Bureau of Customs to go after the big smugglers and not the Balikbayan packages of Overseas Filipino Workers. Bayan Muna partylist recently filed a House Resolution to investigate the moves of the BOC in taxing Balikbayan boxes. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative Bai Halila Sudagar reads Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s statement of support during the gathering of rights advocates at the launching of Solidarity Action Group for Indigenous Peoples and Peasants (SAGIPP) held Monday morning at the Redemptorist Church in Davao City. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
