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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..
YOU CALL THIS WORLD-CLASS? Vendors and marketgoers (extreme right) check an ill-fated elevator at Cogon market shortly after it crashed on Monday. The elevator’s cable (extreme left) snapped. The elevator was part of a multimillion-peso project to refurbish the city’s busiest public market years back. The mayor, Vicente Emano, once called the refurbished market “world-class.” (photos by Nitz Arancon)