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VOL. 6 ISSUE 92 • TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2013
Serving a seamless society
1st to come from Mindanao
Rep. Ungab elected chairman of House appropriations body
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EP. ISIDRO T. UNGAB of Davao City’s 3rd legislative district has been chosen to be the chairman of the House Committee of Appropriations in the current (16th) Congress, his office announced yesterday.
CHILD PROTESTER? A son of one of the militants stands with a wooden rifle beside a placard during yesterday’s protest against President Aquino’s Sona at the Rizal Park, Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.
Ungab, who is on his third and final term as member of the lower House, is the first lawmaker from Mindanao to be elected chairman of the Appropriation Committee in the history of Congress. The appropriations FREP. UNGAB ,10 REP. UNGAB
‘SUGAR-COATED SONA’
Long PNoy report applauded 80 times By EJ DOMINIC FERNANDEZ
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UNDREDS of protesters, not the 2,000 projected by organizers, marched through the main streets of Davao CIty yesterday to articulate their own State of the Nation Address or “SONA ng Bayan.”
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Southern Mindanao spokesperson Sheena
EFFIGY-BURNING. Leaders of the different progressive groups light up an effigy of President Aquino to show their disappointment against his leadership and policies just before
Duazo said, “President Benigno Aquino III is just covering the real condition of the Filipino’s with his ‘sugar-coated’ economic indicators.” She said that the President’s economic indicators, which are an unfamiliar language to most Filipinos, should be transformed into food security, jobs,
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the president delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA), at Rizal Park in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.
INSIDE: Traffic decongestion is Davao City’s priority Akbayan calls for deeper reforms Tiger walks off with another fruitless Open
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