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| Benguet
province's first Adivay (Rediscovering Benguet) features customs and
practices native to its thirteen towns. Photo credit: Abi Taguba Bengwayan/NORDIS
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is a craft practiced across the province, with bamboo as the main
raw material. More innovations have evolved, with old newspapers used
as a weaving materials. Products have also improved, from common baskets
to decors. Photo credit: Abi Taguba Bengwayan/NORDIS Photo |
Manong
nagsasangag kape photos: Kinuday ken Kapi.Most of the booths, if
not displaying scenic and historical spots in their respective hometowns,
had their own anido (fire) with Benguet coffee roasting over it,
such as this delegate from Kabayan. Kinuday (smoked meat) hangs
just over the fire.
A su-ulan, a
structure above the dalikan (stove made of stones) usually stores
vegetables, palay, and firewood. Photo credit: Abi Taguba Bengwayan/NORDIS
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Nursing
students from spend a chat with Lakay Luis Dao-anes in his kalapaw
(hut) at the Adivay fair grounds. The hut is thatched with runo (bamboo
reeds), its walls fastened not by nails but with smaller, rounded
pieces of wood. The purpose is for practicality when one decides to
move house, he says.
He shared traditional birth practices with these students, stressing
that women then still worked in the talon (fields) up to their 8th
month. Photo
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| HIGHER
EDUCATION BUDGET, PLEASE. Students of the University of Northern Philippines
(UNP) in Ilocos also staged mass actions against tuition hikes and
cuts in the education budget. |
About
350 students in Baguio City marched down Session Road to protest the
budget cut of state universities and colleges, and the yearly tuition
fee increases. This march-rally is part of the nationwide protest
spearheaded by the National Union of Students of the Philippines.
Photo credits: Cordillera Peoples Alliance Youth Commission |
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BURBURTIA
KROKIS (Multi-lingual crossword puzzle)
February 20, 2005
FEATURE
STORIES
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fog drapes the valley (Feb. 27, 2005)
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rock icons back together (Feb. 27, 2005)
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