A young woman frowns at the sight of surging prices of rice, a kilo of which costs only 24 pesos,…
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)
This unsigned tarpaulin hangs at Freedom Park along Roxas Boulevard. Rodolfo Lozada has gained both critics and admirers since he…
A 25-foot structure of a lumad (indigenous) in a lotus position sits along the highway in the middle of Buda…
This year’s 71st Araw ng Dabaw upholds the old traditions even as it welcomes a new official website (arawngdabaw.com) and…
UNVEILING. The inauguration of the Museo Dabawenyo highlights the grand opening of Araw ng Dabaw celebration. Created through a city ordinance, the nine million peso building houses city artifacts, documents and other priceless objects that speak of the city’s history, people and culture. The city government invites Davao’s oldest families to donate materials and other historical items for the museum. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte hands out 10 thousand pesos, as financial assistance, to wounded soldier Joseph Zamora of the…
SPEAK THE TRUTH! Angry students from the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UP Mindanao) shout their demand at Romulo Neri, the chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), during Neri’s visit here Friday to meet with the UP Board of Regents. Neri hurriedly sneaked out of the campus to avoid the protesting students. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
High school seniors from the Assumption College of Davao City open Friday’s Interfaith rally with an invocation. With a statement…
PHOTO ESSAY From the towns of Baganga, Cateel and Boston in Davao Oriental, more than 200 Mandaya farmers walked the five-kilometer distance from the downtown area of Mati, the province’s capital, to Barangay Dahikan, the seat of legislative power, to criticize the military for the alleged human rights abuses in their villages.
