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Boston villagers recount tales of military abuses

By GRACE S. UDDIN | Davao Today

Villagers said soldiers mauled and illegally detained three men from Simulao for two days and tied them to a tree. They also allegedly robbed a civilian's motorcycle and destroyed several properties in Barangay Caatihan. In the hinterlands of Tubungan, in Barangay Caatihan of Boston town, soldiers stopped and confiscated three sacks of rice that two men bought from Boston upon suspicion that these are supply for Communist rebels.

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RP call centers reel from world’s highest turnover

By AURELIO A. PENA | Davao Today

SPECIAL REPORT Despite efforts by the country's call center companies to glamorize the industry, call center agents are resigning, job-hopping, transferring or being fired by the hundreds as fast as they are being hired. That image of a "successful call center executive making it in the business world? is lost to these call center agents who are just too glad to quit the industry.

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The ‘strong peso’ and the folly of OFW export

By SONNY AFRICA | Ibon Features

Addressing the impact of the lowering peso value requires more than the mitigating measures government has so far implemented, including the hedge fund set up by the DBP, and Malaca?ang?s fiscal stimulus program.

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Japanese pastors learn shocking things about Davao bananas

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today

Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. ?Bananas are expensive in Japan,? he tells reporters here, ?When I was a boy, I can?t stop eating them.? But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.

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Man on the Run. Datu Guibang Apoga, shown here in an interview with Davao Today in the mountains of Talaingod in 2006, promises to keep fighting for his dispossessed people. (davaotoday.com photo)

The fugitive of Talaingod

Datu Guibang Apoga, the chieftain of the Ata-Manobo tribe in the hinterlands of Talaingod, has been in hiding for a decade now.

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