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DARAITAN, Tanay (AFP) – "There is no right or wrong way," the trailmaster told his nine fellow bushwalkers as they traced a little-known passage through the Sierra Madre range. "But whining is not allowed."


The city slickers entered a different world in the sleepy village of Daraitan just 50 kilometers east of Manila. Here there are no roads, no bridges, no electricity, no telephones, and no 24-hour convenience stores. The locals speak a lilting, archaic form of Tagalog.
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Government environmental law enforcers seized last Wednesday more than 50,000 board feet of illegally cut lauan lumber estimated to be worth P1.4 million in Infanta, Quezon.

Undersecretary Roy Kyamko, deputy head of the National Anti-Environment Crime Task Force, said they caught two men and a woman in the act of loading part of the "hot" lumber into a truck in Barangay Tunguhin.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313071 [Title] => From nets to chisels, Quezon fishers carve hope from tragedy [Summary] => GENERAL NAKAR, Quezon (AFP) — Former fisherman Arnel Rebate pulls out a gnarled chunk of hard wood from a pile salvaged from the shores of the raging Agos River and lets his imagination get to work.

"I will carve this into yet another torso of a naked woman," the 36-year-old father of two says, pointing to a V-shaped portion of the damp, deep brown Philippine ebony that he says will form the outstretched arms of the sculpture he has christened "Diana."
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
AGOS RIVER
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DARAITAN, Tanay (AFP) – "There is no right or wrong way," the trailmaster told his nine fellow bushwalkers as they traced a little-known passage through the Sierra Madre range. "But whining is not allowed."


The city slickers entered a different world in the sleepy village of Daraitan just 50 kilometers east of Manila. Here there are no roads, no bridges, no electricity, no telephones, and no 24-hour convenience stores. The locals speak a lilting, archaic form of Tagalog.
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Government environmental law enforcers seized last Wednesday more than 50,000 board feet of illegally cut lauan lumber estimated to be worth P1.4 million in Infanta, Quezon.

Undersecretary Roy Kyamko, deputy head of the National Anti-Environment Crime Task Force, said they caught two men and a woman in the act of loading part of the "hot" lumber into a truck in Barangay Tunguhin.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 313071 [Title] => From nets to chisels, Quezon fishers carve hope from tragedy [Summary] => GENERAL NAKAR, Quezon (AFP) — Former fisherman Arnel Rebate pulls out a gnarled chunk of hard wood from a pile salvaged from the shores of the raging Agos River and lets his imagination get to work.

"I will carve this into yet another torso of a naked woman," the 36-year-old father of two says, pointing to a V-shaped portion of the damp, deep brown Philippine ebony that he says will form the outstretched arms of the sculpture he has christened "Diana."
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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