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Leader of farmers’ group shot dead in Davao City

By CHERYLL D. FIEL | Davao Today

BREAKING NEWS | Celso Pojas was the secretary-general of the Farmers' Association of Davao City and spokesman of the KMP in Southern Mindanao. He was the first militant leader assassinated in Davao city, according to Karapatan-Southern Mindanao.

Slain farmers' leader Celso Pojas during the peasant month press conference in October last year. The words on his hat reads "Land, not bullet." (davaotoday.com file photo by Barry Ohaylan)


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Disease-causing toxin found in Davao, Gensan rice

The US FDA defines aflatoxin as toxic compounds produced by certain strains of the aspergillus fungus; it is toxic and carcinogenic. Exposure to high level of aflatoxin, according to the DOST, produces acute necrosis or tissue death, as well as cirrhosis and carcinoma of the liver.

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Another Duterte wants an ID system in the barangays

By MARILOU M. AGUIRRE | Davao Today

Paolo Duterte, recently elected as ABC president, wants to duplicate the move of ABC vice-president Leo Aquino, who implemented the ID system in the village of Wilfedo Aquino in the city?s second district, during his term.

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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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Is Sara Duterte testing the waters?

Princess Sara. Who's afraid of the national ID system? (davaotoday.com file photo by Cheryll D. Fiel)

As if daring the groups opposed to it, vice mayor Sara Duterte said she is in favor of the hotly-debated national ID system, pronounced by the Supreme Court as "unconstitutional" in 1998, but recently revived by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to crush the mounting Communist insurgency .

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