Mekong fish, a lucrative alternative to ... By Germelina A. Lacorte Davao Today DAVAO CITY�A strange fish circled its way around the narrow confines of an aquarium that attracted crowds around the Vitarich booth in a recent Mindanao investment forum here. It had the head of a catfish, which reminds Mindanao growers of the local �hito,� but with the...

Ka Oris: Global financial crisis will st... By Grace S. UddinDavao Today Agusan del Norte– �If America coughs, the Philippines gets tuberculosis,� said Jorge �Ka Oris� Madlos, the Mindanao spokesman of the National Democratic Front (NDF), described how the current US financial crisis will affect the Philippines. He was referring to the...

Dreaming of the dagmay... By Germelina A. LacorteDavao Today Caraga, Davao Oriental� Masandag Diano-Pagsac�s face flushed when she heard another version of the story of the origin of dagmay. �It was not a tamisa (a Mandaya term for an only son) who found it,� she insisted in Mandaya. �It was a maiden taking a bath in the river.� An...

Arroyo’s Diminishing Options... With all remaining options including attempts at another Cha-Cha diminishing the whole nation should brace for some extreme measures being resorted to in 2009. By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy (PSPA) Program Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) By law, Gloria M. Arroyo steps...

NPA releases Special Forces army officer... Convenors of Interfaith Movement for Peace and the Release of Cammayo and Tumol (IMPACT) welcome 1Lt. Vicente Cammayo (right) during his release on Jan. 6. Escorted by the New People’s Army custodial force and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Cammayo was released in Loreto,...