

LAST DAYS OF SUMMER. Children enjoy the last days of summer playing along a road in Barangay Tapnigue in Buenavista town , Agusan del Norte. MindaNews photo by Jun Ayensa

STOPOVER. A fruit vendor ties the pineapples he just sold to a passing motorist for P18 a kilo along the highway in Tupi, South Cotabato. MindaNews photo by Jun Ayensa

Students from the Agusan National High School perform a cultural presentation during the closing ceremonies of the 61st Araw Hong Butuan last Tuesday, August 2, 2011. MindaNews photo by Jun Ayensa

SHOPPERS’ PARADISE. A tourist rummages through colorful clothes inside a souvenir shop in downtown Davao City. MindaNews photo by Jun Ayensa

TUNA. A worker sorts out tuna at th e Fish Port Complex in General Santos City before they are brought to the factories, exported abroad or sold the local markets. MindaNews photo by Jun Ayensa
Instead of a carabao, farmers use a small tractor to power an old rotary press to extract juice from sugar cane. The juice would then be converted to muscovado known locally as “kinugay”. MindaNews Photo by Jun Ayensa




