Edge Davao 9 Issue 166

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VOL. 9 ISSUE 166 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 - 15, 2016 WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL. Miss Philippines-Earth 2016 Imelda Bautista Schweighart and other Miss Earth beauty pageant candidates wave to the crowd during their presentation to the media at the Waterfront Insular Hotel yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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RODY SCORES 86% Pulse Asia survey yields high trust rating for PRRD By ALEXANDER D. LOPEZ

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ULSE Asia released on Wednesday its latest survey showing that President Duterte’s has maintained a very high trust rating during his first 100 days in office. The President received an 86 percent approval and trust rating in the poll conducted by Pulse Asia from the period Sept. 25 to October 1. A total of 1,200 adults nationwide served as respondents to the survey. The survey also showed

11 percent of the respondents were undecided on both approval and trust components, while the remaining 3 percent disapproved of the President. Pulse Asia said the survey was conducted in the midst of “key developments” that dominated the headlines which include the appearance of Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed hitman before the hearing on extra-judicial killings conducted by the Senate committee on Justice and Human Rights; the concerns raised by the United

Nations (UN) and other foreign leaders on the increasing number of drug-related deaths in the country; the time when President Duterte made parallelism on the government’s anti-drug campaign to the genocide of Jews committed by Adolf Hitler; and the on-going inquiry at the House of Representatives on the alleged proliferation of illegal drugs inside the New Bilibid Prison. Pulse Asia added that other developments that oc-

cured during the conduct of the survey included the ouster of Senator Leila de Lima as chair of the Senate Committee on Justice; the apology issued by President Duterte to Jewish communities around the world; and, in the economic front, the depreciation of the Philippine peso against the dollar. In all areas surveyed, President Duterte got the highest performance approval rating from Mindanao with 93 per-

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Miss Earth candidates impressed with Davao By TIZIANA CELINE S. PIATOS

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HE more than 120 candidates of Miss Earth 2016 received a warm welcome from Dabawenyos, as they paid an official visit to the Davao City Hall on Thursday afternoon. Arnold Alvarez, a staff of Carousel Productions, the main organizer of the pageants, said the event’s pro-

duction members and candidates were very impressed with Davao’s security, peace and order, and most of all, the preparedness of the local government. “We also did not expect that Davaoeños are this welcoming,” he said. Carousel Productions

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