IMAGE OF THE DAY
This Japanese-made cable crane, slowly being swallowed by soft ground and deep into the swolwen Ala River is one such of equipment thus far damaged in Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao, a few kilometers from a natural gas exploration site in Barangay Tukanakuden in nearby Sultan Sa Barongis town. In spite prospect of fresh revenues from gas find, heavy crop damages due to perennial flooding have reduced households of the two municipalities to sheer poverty, according to the Philippine National Anti-Poverty Commission. (NASH MAULANA)