Davao, Philippines News

CBN steps up its election advocacy campaign with a series of workshops on citizen journalism that will arm Filipinos with the knowledge and skills to report on events and incidents concerning the 2010 elections.

The Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday said skeletal remains have been found on a suspected dumping ground in Davao City of bodies of alleged victims of summary executions by the alleged Davao Death Squad .

" Filipino environmentalists marched on Monday to protest continued mining operations in the southern Philippine province of Davao Oriental.

A passenger bus fell into a ravine Saturday night in Davao del Sur killing a passenger and injuring 15 others.

By Text by BARGE RAMOS, Photography: JUJIIN SAMONTE, Styling: PAULO CASTRO, Model: KRISTINE BERNAL at Mercator July 4, 2009, 6:15pm An urban-punk reverie in natural fiber, wood, feathers and skins Each dress is a story to be told.

MATALAM, North Cotabato in Region 12 said the assistance would be coming not only from his office but also from other government line agencies.

Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo speaks before the participants of a peace gathering in Davao City on Wednesday.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " Police killed an army soldier who was tagged as one of two motorcycle gunmen who shot dead three people in an attack in the southern Filipino province of Davao del Norte.

Casual dining company Pancake House Inc. plans to diversify into education while continuing to grow its core food chain business.

SANTA CRUZ, Davao del Sur: The native hito has been driven to virtual extinction.

The resident bishop of the United Methodist Church of the Philippines Central Conference has called on his constituents and the congregation to strongly oppose the amendments of the 1987 Charter through the constituent assembly .

Two Philippine officials were gunned down in separate incidents Wednesday, leaving police searching for motives with no groups claiming responsibility for the attacks.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - " A senior Filipino health official was gunned down and his daughter injured in an attack in Davao City in the southern Philippines, police said on Thursday.

Shiela Mae Bel, a 20-year old BS Agriculture student at the Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology, is new Miss Mati 2009.

DAVAO CITY Senator Aquilino Pimentel wants the Presidential Commission on Good Government dissolved for its alleged "dismal failure to recover a huge portion of the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses and their cronies, notably the Pl5 billion worth of jewelry of former First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos and the coconut levy assets believed to be ...

MANILA:Two grenades exploded in a public market of a southern Philippine town Saturday night as local residents were having a party, killing one civilian while wounding 32 others, a local army spokesman said Sunday.

THE infamous but almost forgotten Rano massacre in Digos City will mark its 20th year on June 25.

DAVAO CITY "Speaker Prospero Nograles has unmasked himself as a bully, one with no qualms about brandishing the power of his high office to threaten journalists going about their jobs with libel suits and the passage of the unconstitutional Right of Reply Bill," the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Davao City chapter said.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY The Army scored a big blow to communist movement when troopers and police operatives captured the suspected vice-commander of the Regional Operations Command of the New People's Army last Saturday, a military official said Monday.

Suspected New People's Army insurgents shot dead an Army lieutenant and an enlisted personnel during an encounter in Talaingod town, Davao del Norte Sunday morning.