Red Cross volunteers injured in Zambo blast

Five Philippine Red Cross volunteers were injured here Friday in an exploding shell believed fired from a rifle, in a new twist in the stand-down between government security forces and armed followers of the Moro National Liberation Front.

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U.P. PEP TALK AGAINST PORK

Members of the University of the Philippines Mindanao Student Council held discussion circles in the campus before leading students to the anti-pork barrel rally on Wednesday afternoon. UP is one of the 79 state universities and colleges (SUCs) that had its budget slashed for 2014. Thus, the UP community is up in demanding the scrapping of congressional pork and presidential special funds and have them re-channeled to education. (davaotoday.com photo by Kenneth Jean I. Millondaga)

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Envi planners discuss ‘green sustainable communities’ but misses out on coal

Some 100 “environment planners” all over the country held a two-day conference here since Friday to discuss ways to create “green and sustainable communities” vis-à-vis urban development in Mindanao.

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[PRINTS & TRACES] Where Did Mangulayon Go?

Human mapatay ni Datu Mangulayon si Gov. Bolton didto sa Lacaron, Malalag, Davao del Sur, iyang gimangnoan ang tanang nakasaksi ug nakahibalo sa makasaysayanong hitabo nga siya lang ug way laing pasanginlan ug idalahig sa pagpatay kang Bolton ug sa kauban niining si Benjamin Christian.

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BUTUAN CRAFT Maylene Cutor of Ivory.07 Arts and Craft from Butuan City, demonstrates how to weave dried water lily into a pair of sandals which they are displaying now in the Mindanao Trade Expo 2013 at Abreeza Ayala Mall until August 25. Cutor said they can produce a maximum of seven pairs of sandals a day. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Crafts, furniture makers to face tougher times with ASEAN integration

Cutor’s story belies the optimism of the expo organizers, the Mindanao Trade Expo (MTE) Foundation, who remained confident that exports of handicrafts and furniture from the island will thrive.

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