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After President Rodrigo Duterte suspended two logging concessions on the Zamboanga Peninsula, the environment secretary will look into the 104 other foreign management agreements that the department has with private companies nationwide. Half of them are in Duterte’s Mindanao.
In the President’s home city, Davao gets a new vice mayor, replacing Duterte’s son Paolo, who resigned last Christmas after figuring in controversies.
In the north, several young men have come forward to accuse a pastor and sports coach of sexually assaulting them when they were in high school in Baguio City. Leo Arnaiz, the alleged perpetrator, is still active in “character formation” work.
From Pangasinan, a Filipina was lured by a province mate to come to the United States for gainful employment, but ended up being forced to serve in the province mate’s household and business without pay for 3 years while also suffering verbal abuse.
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Fifty-one of the companies with Integrated Forest Management Agreements are in Mindanao, while 40 are in Luzon and 13 are in the Visayas
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Councilor Bernard Echavez Al-ag takes his oath as the new vice mayor before Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio
The announcement comes just days after the 64-year-old news executive at the provocative right-wing site publicly split with Trump over explosive comments he made about the president’s fitness for office and members of his family
After 7 years of debate, the law is finally adopted on Monday, January 8, in Hargeisa, the capital of the semi-autonomous region which declared independence from troubled Somalia in 1991
Fil-Am Josiah Weihman shares a painful secret he has kept for 14 years involving his former high school coach, and hopes others would come forward
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