Lumads flee as military steps up operations in Talaingod

Salupongan believed that their opposition to the Integrated Forestry Management Agreement logging project must have prompted the military to intensify their operation in the area. The lumads have been fighting against the government-backed IFMA for a long time now because it threatens to intrude into their ancestral domain. Your browser may not support display of this image.

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Japanese pastors learn shocking things about Davao bananas

Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. ?Bananas are expensive in Japan,? he tells reporters here, ?When I was a boy, I can?t stop eating them.? But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.

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