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Category: Picture Stories

Kadayawan Festival 2025 in photos

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 18 August) — Floral floats, indigenous tribes, school children, and street dancers took to the streets of Davao City on Sunday (17 August 2025), for the “Indak-indak sa Kadayawan” and “Pamulak sa Kadayawan.” The two separate

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Bruno’s last view of Fr. Picx

Bruno, “companion in solitude” of Fr. Amado “Picx” Picardal as he led a hermit’s life in the mountains of Busay in Cebu City, gets to take one last look at him before his interment at the Carreta Public Cemetery in

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Masara in pictures 6 days later

Six days after the landslide that buried 50 houses and killed 68 people (confirmed as of noon of Monday), Zone 1 of Barangay Masara in Maco, Davao de Oro is now desolate. Its residents have been made to evacuate to

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PHOTO ESSAY: Waterworld in Carmen

CARMEN, Davao del Norte (MindaNews / 02 February) – Travel from Davao City to Tagum City and other parts of the Davao region, Agusan-Surigao and Manila was cut off  Friday due to flooding  in Barangay Tuganay. Tuganay connects Davao City with

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Sendong 12 years later, in pictures

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 17 December)—While “Sendong” (Severe Tropical Storm Washi) made landfall in Hinatuan in Surigao del Sur in the afternoon of 16 December 2011, it wreaked havoc in my hometown hours later, past midnight. At that time, I

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IN PHOTOS: A day after the Magnitude 6.8 quake

GLAN, Sarangani (MindaNews / 19 November) — At the Glan Padido Central Elementary School where a multipurpose hall collapsed, principal Genevieve Rama said it was luck that they dismissed the pupils early that afternoon of Friday, November 17, to give

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‘Photorun’

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 19 November)—“Photowalk” is a global phenomenon among photo hobbyists. In fact, amateur photographers all over the world do this all together during one day in October, starting in 2008. I have participated in a few, 30

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The morning after the flood

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 8 November 2023)—Heavy rains flooded the southern part of this city Tuesday evening, overflowing the Tubod Bridge along the highway. Many vehicles that conked out were stranded by the roadside in Barangay Mahayahay, while the already

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BSKE 2023: Maguindanao and Cotabato City in pictures

Among the areas where violence flared up during the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Monday (30 October 2023) were in Cotabato City and the Maguindanao provinces, where two were killed. MindaNews’ Ferdinandh Cabrera monitored these area to document progress

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BSKE 2023: Lanao del Sur in pictures

MindaNews joined a small team of journalists that went around the various municipalities surrounding Lake Lanao during the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) on 30 October 2023. Lanao del Sur province has been traditionally considered a hot spot during

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The Badjaos in Iligan

The Sama Dilaut, most commonly known as Badjaos to outsiders, are referred to as “sea gypsies” as they are known to live in the seas, aboard boats or by the shoreline in houses with stilts. Originally mostly from the Sulu

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Pamulak sa Kadayawan

Colorful floats adorned with flowers joining the Pamulak sa Kadayawan, a flower floatparade, were the crowd-drawers on Sunday (21 August 2022), capping the month-long celebration of the 2022 Kadayawan Festival of Davao City. Tourists and local residents missed having these

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Good Friday ‘Photorun’

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 15 April) – What to do on a Good Friday? Pre-pandemic times, there’s usually a procession first hour in the morning. But the past two years, the Catholic church had temporarily stopped the ritual, fearing it

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PHOTO ESSAY: Numbers Game

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 01 April) – Aside from the surveys, the size of the crowds attending the rallies of candidates for president has become a point of contention as the campaign for the May 9, 2022 elections enters the

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Long Queue at the Hospital

The Dapa District Hospital in Siargao Island has been swamped with children the past few days because of diarrhea brought about by the shortage of supply of drinking water after super typhoon “Odette” hit the area on 16 December 2021.

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‘No Movement Sunday’

Three of the four cities in Region 12 or Soccsksargen have been imposing a “No Movement Sunday” policy in the past few weeks in a bid to help curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The cities that rigorously

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PICTURES: Marawi 3 years later

A worker heads to a road reconstruction site in Marawi City on Saturday, October 17, 2020.  Majority of the 27,000 families in the 250-hectare, 24-barangay “Ground Zero” have yet to return home. Rehabilitation work is still ongoing three years after

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Serving their communities

Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams in Cagayan de Oro City have been mobilized to help in the fight against COVID-19 as early as 29 January 2020, ahead of the national government’s policy to tap the BHERTs.[] Barangay health workers and

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Roxas Night Market reopens

After six months of closure due to the COVID-19 community quarantines,  the Roxas Night Market in Davao City reopened Saturday, 12 September 2020 with strict health protocols implemented to prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease.  Temperature checks are

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PICTURES: Plants in Miyam’s Garden

ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 06 Sept) – I didn’t expect our local camera club (The Umbrella: Joint Photographic Society of Iligan City) to continue with the monthly quarantine photo contests since the start of the lockdowns. But last week we

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PHOTO ESSAY: Shielded

Commuters wear face shields over their masks while waiting for their ride along C.M. Recto Avenue in Cagayan de Oro on Monday, 17 August 2020.  The Land Transportation Franchise Regulatory Board implemented a “No Face Shield, No Ride” policy in

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PICTURES: Shooting Birds at Home

The long quarantine period in this time of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has brought untold sufferings, but it also sparked creativity among those who stayed home. In Iligan City, photo hobbyists have been very prolific since the lockdown in March,

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IN PICTURES: Desolate Davao City

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 April) — By nightfall of Wednesday,  April 15,  as Davao City  started another 12-hour curfew beginning 6 p.m.,  policemen flagged down motorists passing along Lanang on JP Laurel Avenue and elsewhere in the city to

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Davao City under quarantine

Davao City has been placed under community quarantine effective Sunday, March 15, 2020, amid threats posed by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Although the city has no confirmed case of COVID-19 as yet, Mayor Sara Duterte issued Executive Order 10

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PICTURES: Keeping Bukidnon ASF-free

LOREGA, Kitaotao, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 12 Feb) — Bukidnon, a landlocked province in mainland Mindanao, has been employing biosecurity measures for several decades now, long before the African Swine Fever (ASF) reached Mindannao. MindaNews visited the Animal Quarantine Checkpoint in

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Kuyamis Festival

Participants perform during the 7th Kuyamis Festival in Misamis Oriental on Wednesday, 8 January 2020. Fifteen of the province’s 23 towns and Gingoog City participated  in the festival held in Cagayan de Oro City. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO

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