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| | Cebu Badjao tribe opposes relocation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | In Cebu City, some 200 Badjao families have settled in Sitio Alaska, Barangay Mambaling; another 100 are in Baclaran, in Metro Manila, amid the flea markets, small jewelry stores, pawnshops, passenger jeepneys and Catholic devotees who worship at the Redemptorist Church. |
 | | Although some can be seen begging in the city streets, most particularly along the Philippines’ oldest thoroughfare, Colon Street, in Cebu’s downtown area, most of them confine their movements between their houses built on bamboo stilts in she shoreline, and the sea where they fish. |
 | | But 23-year-old Munib, a Badjao youth CyberDyaryo interviewed, said that the city government is bent on relocating them to Cordova town because of fears that the three-decade-old dispute between the Side A and Side B groups in the area might harm Osmena's political career. |
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