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National Democratic Front spokesman Fidel Agcaoili meets reporters after the forum on the GPH-NDF peace process organized by the Ateneo de Davao University on Wednesday. Beside him is ADDU President Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

NDFP panel: Mariano, Taguiwalo, Lopez can help push ‘socio-economic’ reforms

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines negotiating peace panel said the appointment of three cabinet secretaries in the Duterte administration could help push the socio-economic reforms in the country.

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Read more about the article Duterte tells students: You have to go back to ROTC
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte announces he is working on a law that will revive the Reserve Officers Training Corps during the opening ceremony of the Palarong Pambansa 2017 at the Binirayan Sports Complex in Antique on April 23, 2017. (Toto Lozano/Presidential Photo)

Duterte tells students: You have to go back to ROTC

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he is now working on a law that would restore the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

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Lapanday says DAR has ‘no authority’ to issue Writ of Installation

The Lapanday Foods Corporation said they will oppose the Writ of Installation issued by the Department of Agrarian Reform favoring the farmers as this “defies the final Court order” which earlier ruled in its favor.

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Read more about the article Guards foil PNP, stop hopeful farmers from occupying DAR-ordered lands 
More than a hundred agrarian reform beneficiaries wait for their installation outside the disputed San Isidro farm area in Barangay San Isidro, Tagum City. Their installation was postponed for the second time on Friday, April 21, 2017 as the guards inside the plantation refused to receive the installation order from the Department of Agrarian Reform. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Guards foil PNP, stop hopeful farmers from occupying DAR-ordered lands 

For the second time, agrarian reform beneficiaries here were stopped by company guards who refused to obey the Writ of Installation ordered by Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano.

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