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Read more about the article Mayor Sara Duterte terminates Mega Harbour project, cites environmental reason
REACH?ING? OUT. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte says the city is trying to reach out to investors and tourists, telling them Davao City is safe despite martial law. In her speech during the 4th Davao Investment Conference (ICON) on Friday, July 21, Duterte said this year’s ICON is the best chance to show people that Davao City is "conducive to investments." Mayor Sara admitted in a latter press conference that the investment in the tourism industry have been affected by the implementation of Martial law in the whole island of Mindanao.(Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)

Mayor Sara Duterte terminates Mega Harbour project, cites environmental reason

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio decided to terminate the Mega Harbour project, a joint venture agreement signed by her father, then city mayor and now President, Rodrigo Duterte with the Mega Harbour Port and Development Incorporated.

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Read more about the article Mindanao’s true face portrayed by peasants, workers, IPs on Duterte’s second SONA

Mindanao’s true face portrayed by peasants, workers, IPs on Duterte’s second SONA

They came – the workers, peasants and indigenous peoples, to represent their class to depict the true conditions of their communities and workplaces during the second State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte. They joined the thousands of the marginalized sectors of the country and camped out in strategic areas in Metro Manila to air out their grievances that one year into the present administration, no changes were effected in Mindanao.

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Read more about the article Dabawenyos cheer, jeer Duterte’s 2nd SONA
President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Batasang Pambansa on Monday, July 24, 2017. (KARL NORMAN ALONZO/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

Dabawenyos cheer, jeer Duterte’s 2nd SONA

President, Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s 2nd State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 24, earned mixed reactions from his bailiwick here?, where he was mayor for two decades?.

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Read more about the article Maranao leaders ask gov’t to open access roads in Marawi
FIGHTING GOES ON. More than four weeks since the siege occurred, intense fighting continues in Marawi City. Smoke billows in various areas in Marawi as military ground operations and air assaults took place on Thursday morning, June 22. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

Maranao leaders ask gov’t to open access roads in Marawi

Maranaw leaders have urged the government to reopen two access roads connecting Marawi to other areas in Lanao del Sur for easy transport of basic commodities into the towns surrounding the besieged city.

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Read more about the article Indigenous children from Mindanao want to stop Martial Law
Only a few meters outside the House of Representatives in Quezon City where President Rodrigo Duterte is delivering his State of the Nation Address, indigenous children from Mindanao express their opposition to Martial Law through an a cappella of Musikang Bayan's Igpaw Mindanao on Monday, July 24. (Lorie Ann Cascaro/davaotoday.com)

Indigenous children from Mindanao want to stop Martial Law

Hours before President Duterte arrived at the House of the Representatives on a white helicopter on Monday to deliver his second State of the Nation Address (SONA), children from the hinterlands in Mindanao, Southern Philippines, dressed in their tribal clothes, ?called on government ?to stop Martial Law at a nationwide protest.

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