A woman or a child gets raped every 72 minutes last year in the Philippines, a trend that progressive women groups have blamed on President Rodrigo Duterte's "misogynistic statements".
The IGDD deals with around 10 to 15 VAW clients in a day, on top of new cases reported, according to Mandin.
Truckloads of cigarettes worth millions of pesos bearing fake Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) stamps were confiscated by authorities in a warehouse in Barangay Kauswagan on Thursday, March 7.
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison on Wednesday issued a statement, disputing reports he identified some legal organizations as a front of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
The tighter implementation of traffic laws has resulted in the increase of the number of apprehensions in the city, the Traffic Group of the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) reported.