Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte (Robby Joy D. Salveron / davaotoday.com) DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday, January 5 accepted the resignation of Presidential son and city vice mayor, Paolo Duterte. The Palace informed Vice Mayor Duterte of President Rodrigo Duterte’s acceptance of his resignation in a letter signed by Executive Secretary Salvador…
Photo from Alexandra Moreno’s Facebook account DAVAO CITY, Philippines — All 38 fire victims are now accounted for after the body of a missing call center worker here was found Thursday, January 4. Fire Senior Superintendent Jerry Candido, spokesperson of Inter-agency Anti-Arson Task Force on Friday, January 5 said the body of Alexandra Moreno-Castillo was…
New year, new crises. Plummeting prices, degrading quality of life. But most citizen-consumers feel happy, it seems. The Philippines allegedly ranks third, among the happiest of nations, if that means anything. Well, it does, for social media well-wishers. Indeed, digital windows have doors that open to other such windows, without intermediary spaces, in what Byung-Chul…
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – The inter-agency group tasked to investigate the tragic NCCC mall fire is expected to come up with a recommendation on fire safety measures. Fire Superintendent Jerry Candido, spokesperson of the Interagency Anti-Arson Task Force, said they have initially discussed on reassessing standards on fire safety during their meeting last December 30….
Authorities say the exit paths of mall were not smoke and heat-proof No connection between alarm system at SSI and mall’s No functioning sprinkler A massive fire guts the NCCC Mall of Davao on December 23, 2017. The fire was put out after 32 hours. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/ davaotoday.com) DAVAO CITY, Philippines —…
Peace negotiations with the Communists was notably gaining “unprecedented advances. But what went wrong? A close contact between the government and the National Democratic Front prior to the third round of peace talks on January next year is important for the success of the negotiations, an official of the Royal Norwegian Government said. (Zea Io…
IN FAVOR. Majority of the 18th City Council members vote to pass the Anti-Unattended Bag Ordinance penned by Councilors Bernard Al-ag and Nilo Abellera on Tuesday, July 11, with the exception of Councilor Mabel Sunga-Acosta, who abstained. Acosta said she is in favor of the original ordinance but she finds the final draft “unreasonable” as…
The series of “previews” (part translation, part summary, part review as noted in the last three column articles) shall end with Bomen Guillermo’s “Kawayan” (2007/2017) and Emiliana Kampilan’s Dead Balagtas: Mga Sayaw ng Lupa at Dagat (2017). Incidentally, the first two previews were fueled by fire and air: text’s terrorism and author’s sentimentalism, flickers that…