A craftsman works on a Christmas lantern (parol) using bamboo material which he displays along Quimpo Boulevard. With the Christmas season starting, traditional lanterns are sought after, with prices ranging from thirty to five hundred pesos. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte leads the oath taking ceremony Friday of the new barangay officials from the city’s 182 barangays, held at Almendras Gym. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
A barangay official from Tacloban, Leyte, Jessica Seno Panis (left) cries as she thanks Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (right) for including her during Friday’s oath taking ceremony of new barangay officials at Almendras Gym. Panis is temporarily residing with relatives in Davao after Typhoon Yolanda ravaged her city and other parts of Eastern Visayas, but said she will return soon to serve her constituents in Barangay 73 PHHC. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
As the Christmas season starts, city government staff were seen in the past weeks putting up Christmas decors at the trees fronting the City Hall which lights up the night. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Without electricity and relief in Leyte including this town of Tolosa, a resident still posts a broken television set and sign to show his wish to to watch boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao’s fight against Brando Rios last Sunday. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Different poses of Typhoon Yolanda survivors as they await their turn in a relief mission in a town in Leyte. (photo courtesy of Balsa Mindanao)
Volunteers of Balsa Mindanao hold candles as they prayed for their relief mission to Yolanda victims in Leyte last weekend before their takeoff at Lipata Port, Surigao City. (photo courtesy of Balsa Mindanao)
Carlos Zarate, representative of Bayan Muna partylist waves at a child during the Balsa Mindanao’s relief drive in Leyte this weekend where they distributed 14,000 relief packs to victims of Typhoon Yolanda. (photo courtesy of Balsa Mindanao Southern Mindanao)
Davao journalists led by National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and their campus press counterpart College Editors Guild of the Philippines march on the streets Saturday on the commemoration of the fourth year of the Ampatuan massacre and the third International Day to End Impunity. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
International theater artist Monique Wilson dances with Davao artists during the launch of the One Billion Rising 2014 Campaign for Justice at People’s Park Saturday. Next year’s campaign will focus on defending women’s economic, social and political rights. (davaotoday.com photo by Tyrone A. Velez)
