A Manobo couple, who joined thousands to flee their residence, lost a daughter after she fell ill inside the provincial sports center in Tandag City, Surigao del Sur early Tuesday morning.
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Formal charges were filed against identified perpetrators of the killing of a school director, and two Lumad leaders in Lianga town, Surigao del Sur.
For more than 20 years, Bohol-native Ireneo Simagala works as a laborer inside the General Santos Fish Port Complex. Now he makes and sells Dayok (native dip) out of the lungs and other innards of marlin. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
40-year old Junjun Abranilla has been working as a laborer for eight years inside the General Santos Fish Port Complex. Here he is cleaning tunas for the Japanese firm, Ten Point Manufacturing Corporation. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Laborers are carrying a 74-kilo Diana (Moonfish) for export inside the market of the Fish Port Complex in General Santos City on a Sunday. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Traders line up Moonfish for export at the Market 1 inside General Santos Fish Port Complex in Barangay Tambler. Traders say Moonfish, locally known as Diana, is very rare. The fish can be sold at P300 per kilo outside the market. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Five days after two civilians were reportedly killed by alleged members of a tribal armed group in Surigao del Sur, the residents in a village in Lianga, Surigao del Sur were woken up by the loud sounds of combat boots kicking the walls of their houses early morning Tuesday.
Human rights group Karapatan in Caraga region said two brothers in Surigao del Sur were killed Thursday evening by alleged members of the tribal forces locally known as Bagani Force.
A performer inside a resort in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato plays the Kumbing (bamboo jaw’s harp) to entertain guests. In T’boli’s tradition, they play the Kumbing to call the moon back during an eclipse. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Weighers (locally referred to as scalers) in the Market 1 of the port of General Santos weigh at least 90 tons of fresh tuna daily. General Santos City has been touted as the tuna capital in the country. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
