HOLD. Soldiers guard a nine-van convoy of journalists after stopping them at an army checkpoint in Barangay Bagan, Guindulungan town in Maguindanao Tuesday morning.The journalists were held for nearly an hour. (MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo)
ORPHANED. Dr. Rogelio Pe?era?s daughter says goodbye for the last time. The Davao City epidemiologist was gunned down last week on his way home after fetching her from school. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
Grieving officemates and friends are calling for justice over the doctor's untimely death. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
DAVAO MEDIA AGAINST REPLY BILL. Calling the Right of Reply Bill (RORB) an ?anathema? to press freedom and free expression, Davao media unite to fight the passing of the bill, now on second reading in Congress. NUJP-Davao calls the bill an ?act of terrorism? against the independent Philippine press. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
READY FOR EXPORT. A worker wrapping se?orita bananas for export to Japan, Korea and China. She's one of the twelve running a mobile packing plant at the Dole-Stanfilco banana plantation in Barangay Coronobe, Maragusan, Compostela Valley. Packed in boxes, the bananas are collected by container vans and carried off directly to the seaport in Davao City. (davaotoday.com photo)