News in Pictures

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)

STENCH OF REALITY. City ordinance dictates that throwing of garbage may only be done in the evenings. What regulation will ensure that these young boys do not need to go through trash bins? (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

RICE LAND TO BANANA LANDS. Food security is gravely threatened as ricelands in the fertile Maragusan Valley -- a major foodbasket in Southern Mindanao -- are converted into banana plantations by the multi-national Dole-Standard Fruit and Steamship Company (Stanfilco). (davaotoday.com photo)