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Day: February 22, 2012

Pomelo farmers learn to make cash from trash

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/21 February) – There’s cash from trash. Pomelo growers in North Cotabato are expecting more income after they were taught that there’s money in the fruit’s peelings, which they previously just threw away. In a recent training initiated

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The village of Tapgok-ri in Gongju City where Cathy Deocades, of General Santos City, lived. She was found hanging from a wooden bar in an abandoned house not far from her home, in what the South Korean police determined was a suicide. Photo by Malte E. Kollenberg / VERA Files

An Asian tragedy called Cathy

GONGJU, South Korea – Two and a half hours south of Seoul by land lies the farming village of Tapgok-ri, a remote part of the city of Gongju. Here, in the middle of nowhere, is where Cathy Deocades lived. It is nothing like the glittery and glamorous world shown in Korean dramas and K-Pop music videos, which are increasingly popular among Filipino women.

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FASTLANES: Getting lost in the summit

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/21 February) – Attending the Mindanao Summit on Disaster Risk Reduction and Geo-hazards Awareness here over the weekend was an excellent reason to reconnect with people who are battered but still fighting hard to recover from

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