Elizabeth Gargar, mother of detained physicist Kim Gargar, broke down in tears as she belied the military's claim that her son was captured as a New People's Army in Barangay Aliwagwag, Cateel, Davao Oriental province. Elizabeth and her husband, Manuel (right), are visiting Kim at Mati provincial jail this weekend. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Marco Polo Hotel Davao Executive Chef Ed Tuazon (right), announced during Wednesday's Club 888 media forum that the hotel highlights Bicol delicacies this month prepared by Naga City celebrity chef Leandro Regalado Sto. Domingo (center). (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Activists picketed the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police Joint Peace & Security Coordinating Council at the Waterfront Hotel in Lanang, saying the AFP’s military operations resulted to ‘un-peace’ with the displacement of indigenous peoples in Compostela, and the killing of lumad supporter Benjie Planos (in poster) in Loreto, Agusan del Sur. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
A string of jewelry recovered from slain suspect Roberto Kepti was presented by Talomo Police Station Commander Superintendent Julius Silagan. Kepti, who had two standing warrants of arrests, was shot dead Tuesday afternoon during a shootout with policemen who tracked him in Juna Subdivision, Matina. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Student activists picketed the regional Commission on Higher Education (CHED) regional office in Obrero on Monday over the alleged anomaly by education officials and budget secretary Butch Abad to fund the P10-billion CHED-PCARI (Philippine-California Advance Research Institute) Collaboration Research Project. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)