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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

 

Christmas tradition lives on in remote village

Children go caroling, a star “parol” by the window, and mother makes a Christmas tree out of coconut midribs covered in colored foil

MAGSAYSAY, Davao del Sur: In a mountainous village here called Upper Bala, little Bitoy Amacan, 7, can only sing “Pasko, Pasko, Pasko na naman muli” together with four children his age, accompanied by sounds of stones beating each other, said a Philippine News Agency feature on Monday.

It’s Christmas time here amid cornfields, vegetable farms and coconut plantations under a black starlit night and somehow the old Philippine tradition of caroling around the neighborhood has survived after all these years.

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SUBIC BAY Freeport: Ten high-school students from Brent International School here in Subic were inducted into the prestigious National Honor Society (NHS), an organization established in 1921 to recognize outstanding high school students in the United States.

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