Malaybalay City
Malaybalay City’s Christmas arches
Here are some amateur photos of the Christmas arches around Malaybalay City in time for Christmas 2009. From the top, at the entrance of Bukidnon National High School, from Valencia City near Old public cemetery, near the Bethel Baptist Hospital in Sumpong, at the Plaza Rizal from the San Isidro Catheral, and the third gate [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Malaybalay’s Valdez Native Handicraft: but where’s the abaca?
MALAYBALAY CITY — The local handicraft industry is losing business due to scarce supply of abaca, Bernadette Valdez, onwer of Malaybalay’s renowned Valdez Native Handicraft, said.
Although the demand for the products had been increasing, supply of woven abaca is going down, she said.
Her business, which started as a home-based cottage industry in the late 1980’s, [...]
Rewind: From Bukidnon to the World
(First published in www.mindanews.com and www.istambay.wordpress.com)
By Walter I. Balane/MindaNews
MALAYBALAY CITY — Since I started reading newspapers on a daily basis in 1994, I had always wanted to read news datelined from my home province.
Having studied and worked in Iloilo and Manila, I always considered reading news from home as my way to be connected on [...]
Lumad village in Malaybalay harassed by army soldiers
Members of the Talaandig tribe in the upland village of Capitan Angel in Malaybalay City said soldiers from the Army’s 29th Infantry Batallion harassed them Monday, forcing three of their men out of their houses for “interrogation” on the alleged presence of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the area.Datu Migketay Vic Saway told MindaNews [...]
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