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Read more about the article Government critics urge government to scrap TRAIN Law?
Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan ask market goers to sign a petition to stop the implementation of Duterte administrations's Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at the Bankerohan Public Market in Davao City.(Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

Government critics urge government to scrap TRAIN Law?

Progressive groups ?mounted a petition-signing around the oldest ?public market here to ask the government to scrap its Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law?, which they described as anti-people.

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Read more about the article Talks with NDF set in July  
PANEL TO PANEL. Peace panels from the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, together with the facilitators from the Royal Norwegian Government, resume their session on Sunday morning, May 28 to continue on sorting out how to push through with the scheduled fifth round of talks at the Radisson Blu Palace Hotel in Noordwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Talks with NDF set in July  

President Rodrigo Duterte has announced that the formal peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) may resume ?in ??July.

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Read more about the article PH fishermen need escort in WPS, lawmaker suggests
TWILIGHT FISHING. A fisherman casts his net at nightfall in Naawan, Misamis Oriental. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

PH fishermen need escort in WPS, lawmaker suggests

DAVAO CITY,Philippines –?In the latest controversy ?involving the Chinese Coast Guard divest?ing? poor Filipino fishermen of their catch at the West Philippine Sea, particularly in the area of Bajo de…

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Read more about the article Davao farmers join national day of protest for genuine agrarian reform
SCRAP AVAs. Farmers under the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries One Movement (AOM) hold a protest outside the venue of the pubic hearing of the House of the Representatives Committee on Agrarian Reform on the impact of agribusiness venture arrangements (AVAs). Protesting farmers call for the cancellation of all AVAs to grant them full control of their lands awarded by the government. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Davao farmers join national day of protest for genuine agrarian reform

Farmers from various organizations in Southern Mindanao staged a protest in front of the office of Department of Agrarian Reform in Region XI (DAR-XI) at Catalunan, Pequeño in this city to slam the government’s failure to enact a genuine agrarian reform program that will render justice to farmers who have long been chained by landlessness, tenancy and poverty.

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