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TERRIFIED. Fright is written all over the face of a young girl as her mother watches the fireworks display in the sky above the Northern Mindanao Medical Center on New Year’s Eve. The national government is moving to ban the use of firecrackers for good because of the number of injuries during Christmas and new year revelries. (photo by Froilan Gallardo of Mindanews)
MORNING TUNA. A laborer carries a yellow fin tuna over his shoulder towards the waiting cart to be processed for buyers just as the sun breaks light at the General Santos City Fish Port Complex. (photo by Erwin Mascarinas)
NO TAIWANESE? Vendors, pedestrians and motorists on a road at the Cogon market area where many foreigners, some believed to be Taiwanese, are doing business. The immigration bureau says it has no records of Taiwanese living or doing business in Cagayan de Oro. (photo by Nitz Arancon)
DEAL TURNED BAD. Mayor Vicente Emano puffs a cigarette as he watches Chinese-Filipino businessman Jacky Ching signing a document in his office in this 2011 photo. Two years later, Ching found himself becoming a whistleblower, linking the mayor and a councilor to alleged payoffs in connection to the soured Carmen market lease contract deal between city hall and New Wishing Star Corp..