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Mekong fish, a lucrative alternative to bangus and tilapia?


Mekong catfish, popularly known in Davao as "pangasius," is a fish that naturally grows from the Mekong river delta. Thinking of the local "hito," Mindanao fish growers easily relates to it. (davaotoday.com photo)


By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today

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 flat body of most saltwater fish. According to the posters that Vitarich posted on the wall, this catfish can grow as big as a shark.

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Ka Oris: Global financial crisis will strengthen Communist Party


George ?Ka Oris? Madlos, the Mindanao spokesperson of the National Democratic Front.(davaotoday.com photo)


By Grace S. Uddin
Davao Today

Communists in Mindanao say the deep economic crisis of capitalist countries like the US is a ?favorable opportunity? to strengthen the Communist Party and to raise the people's struggle to a ?higher level.?

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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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NPA releases Special Forces army officer as ‘goodwill gesture’


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, Agusan del Sur, after being held as "prisoner of war" for almost two months. According to the Merardo Arce Command of the NPA, Cammayo was the team leader of the 11th company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion of the AFP who surrendered on Nov. 7 last year when his unit was ambushed by the NPA in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. His release, according to the NPA regional command, is a "gesture of goodwill" in celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines's 40th anniversary. (davaotoday.com photos by Barry Ohaylan)

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