Communist guerrillas are calling on voters in the city’s second congressional district to end the 20-year-old political rule of the Garcia family, but have kept silent on its strongest ally, Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
Manuel “Paddy” L. Lascano, a chef and culinary consultant, died on April 10 at Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City. He was 64.
The military took a swipe at militant groups, saying noisy protests are not helping survivors of Typhoon “Pablo” any.
Team PNoy for the first time gathered a majority of its senatorial bets in a campaign sortie here since its proclamation rally in Manila last February 12.
![NAME THE YOUNGEST PHILIPPINE EAGLE The Philippine Eagle Foundation breeding facility in Davao City has a new resident, a 5-day-old Philippine eagle, the 25th to be hatched in the facility. The eaglet’s parents are Pag-asa (mother) [right] and Kalinawan (father) [top left]—both born in captivity in Barangay Malagos in Calinan District. PHILIPPINE EAGLE FOUNDATION](http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2013/02/eagles--90x65.jpg "eagles-")
The country’s first Philippine eagle to be hatched and bred in captivity is now a mother.
Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman again defended the agency’s construction of allegedly overpriced bunkhouses in areas devastated by Typhoon “Pablo.”
“Don’t blame poor Filipinos for what’s wrong with the weather,” Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said as he lashed at critics who blamed illegal logging for the worst flooding that inundated some areas in Davao in water for the whole week.
More than 5,000 families, or 25,000 individuals, have been affected by the flooding that hit riverside villages here following nonstop rains since Saturday night.
In much of the country, the trend was toward a significant reduction of firecracker-related injuries during the raucous New Year’s Eve celebrations, according to health officials.
The questionable release of cargo that had been misdeclared played a major role in the dismissal of two Customs officials here and the suspension of two others.
This city will be the host of the Philippine Ad Congress next year, the biggest biennial gathering of the country’s top businessmen and media executives.
At least 17 families of a lumad tribe in Marilog District in Davao City were evacuated after receiving threats from New People’s Army allegedly eyeing the tribe’s village as the site for the celebration of the upcoming anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in December, the military said.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod on Friday approved a resolution calling for the pullout of military detachments from civilian communities in the city.
