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TIRED HERO. The motto in this teacher's shirt is an understatement to her ordeal of waiting whole night to deliver the ballot boxes to the Comelec officers. (davaotoday.com photo by Tyrone A. Velez)

Davao public school teachers want a stop to Memo on mandatory drug, neuro tests

Public school teachers want to suspend a memo of the local division of the Department of Educaiton (DepEd) subjecting teachers to mandatory drug and neuropsychiatric tests saying it is “unnecessary, degrading, insulting, devoid of any legal basis and will add to the teachers’ expenses.”

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Victims of Typhoon Pablo and other sectoral groups welcomed Pope Francis in a rally to seek the pontiff's support for their call for justice. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Farmers are the Pope’s “poor in the periphery”

A farmer’s group said they are among what Pope Francis referred to as the poor in peripheries in the Philippines that the Church should help.

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Mindanao rights group to file case vs police official after violent dispersal

Contingents of a human rights caravan from Mindanao to Manila, Manilakbayan, is now preparing their legal documents to file a case against the Philippine National Police-Quezon City Police District (PNP-QCPD) officerPolice Superintendent Col. Pedro Sanchez and his subordinates, following a violent dispersal last November 29 that left fifteen injured including two media practitioners.

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