Jailed Davao broadcaster too poor to afford a lawyer asks for help

If media persons in Manila are raising a howl for being detained for hours without committing a crime, imagine how hard it would be for one to be sentenced to about six years in prison just because one could not afford a lawyer.

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Heed the Lumads’ call for peace, stop militarization in Surigao — Pasaka

PASAKA, a regional formation membering 25 lumad organizations in Southern Mindanao and North Cotobato condemned the military operations in the hinterland villages of Surigao Del Sur which led to the…

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Davao militants learn lessons from Trillanes’s botched coup

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

For the militants in Davao City, if there is one thing to learn from the botched coup at the Manila Peninsula Hotel led by Lt. Senior grade Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General Danilo Lim, it should be this: "Banking on spontaneity is not enough."

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