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Night Market at Davao Chinatown

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today

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At first I thought the white car (brand name: Cherry) displayed on the right side of Bangoy street at the Davao Chinatown night market was a prize for patrons. It turned out that it was up for sale. A few steps away, women handed out flyers. It took a moment for me to notice that the large picture frame was not a painting but a picture of a clubhouse. The women were real estate brokers selling subdivision lots. Now I hadn't seen that in any of the country?s night markets.Read on.

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Dreaming of the dagmay


Various designs of the dagmay(davaotoday.com photo)

By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today Among the Mandayas, the dagmay has been worn as women?s skirts but it is also used as blankets and to wrap the dead. Each design, however, carries with it a certain story. Most of the traditional designs, which can easily date back to over a hundred years, have come to them in dreams.

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