Davao, Philippines News

The competition capped off its fifth successful year with a full concert featuring the lucky 13 Nescafe 3in1 Soundskool finalists, as well as some of the country's best musical acts at the Ninoy Aquino Sports Stadium.

DAVAO CITY, the Philippines: Unidentified gunmen seized on Monday 40 people, including 20 journalists, in the province of Maguindanao, southern Philippines.

Profits of Holcim Philippines Inc. grew ninefold in the third quarter of the year, a traditionally weak season for the local cement industry due to rainy months.

Some 30 Filipino journalists have gathered Friday for a series of seminar and workshop on human rights reporting in Davao City in the southern Philippines.

With close to P300 million in investments to be poured in its coal mine operations Zamboanga Sibugay and Davao Oriental, Titan Exploration and Development Corp.

Two 5.1 magnitude earthquakes jolted Davao provinces on Tuesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

Rey will not like this but I will have to say that he is older than I am. In fact, much older.

DAVAO CITY The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines national chapter has issued a statement condemning North Cotabato Governor Emmanuel Pinol's "shameless abuse of authority" for allegedly threatening a radio blocktimer who criticized Pinol's alleged "landgrabbing" from indigenous peoples in Arakan, North Cotabato and Bukidnon.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " A communist rebel and soldier were killed in separate clashes in the volatile region of the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday.

Fifty Muslim religious leaders of Metro Manila and Luzon, both men and women, gathered at the Bayview Park Plaza from November 4 to 6 this week to discuss issues critical to our lives, focusing on human rights, elections, interfaith dialogues, and Islamic peace education.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines , Nov 9 - At 14, Ann is too young to be worrying about getting pregnant or acquiring AIDS.

Our lack of understanding of these cultures, exacerbated by wrong if not absent information contained in textbooks and "lack of proper images of our indigenous peoples in the media," as National Commission for Culture and the Arts Executive Director Cecile Guidote Alvarez puts it, greatly contributes for these stereotypes to endure to this day, so ...

Davao, the window to Mindanao. Davao , Davao , Philippines Friday, November 6, 2009 Text and Images by Ronald de Jong Davao Gulf Davao is often dubbed as the window to the island of Mindanao, an inviting city that will surprise its visitors and raise one's curiosity.

Friday, 6 November 2009, 9:34 am Press Release: US Department of State - Background Notes October 2009 Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of the Philippines Geography Area: 300,000 sq.

Environment officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations declared the Mt.

DAVAO CITY The focus group discussions conducted by Konsult Mindanaw! on the peace process following the botched Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain last year, have identified rido and mining as among "other sources of armed conflict." Konsult Mindanaw!, the research team from academe which the Bishops-Ulama Conference commissioned to do ...

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Girls in gangs become more vulnerable when families can ill afford to feed them, increasing risk of being prostituted.

The first Millennium Development Goal adopted by member states of the United Nations is to halve extreme poverty around the globe by 2015.

DAVAO CITY The New People's Army in Southern Mindanao has claimed that one of the suspected soldiers in the March 4 abduction- rape-slay-torture of teacher Rebelyn Pitao was killed in Crossing Malabog, Paquibato on Sunday afternoon because he was "armed, dangerous and gave battle to the NPA arresting team." "He was liquidated, as simple as that," ...