MANILA, Philippines — The Hanunuo Mangyans of Mindoro teach their children how to engage with people in the community and handle life’s troubles indirectly, by using metaphors. Young men court women ...

For hundreds of years they lived unnoticed and unknown, eight Mangyan tribes in the mountains of Mindoro. They harvested rice, corn, bananas and wild yam, and bathed in rivers and streams. They ...

MANILA, Philippines — It is very easy to judge someone we do not know. This seems to be the case for some people in the Philippines, which is home to around 100 million people, 12%-15% of whom are ...

During the last quarter of 2017, I was lucky enough to be invited to give a talk on the ambahan, the traditional poetry of the Hanunuo Mangyans of Mindoro. Their poems are inscribed normally on bamboo ...

My own personal celebration of National Literature Month was my rather belated discovery of the ambahan, Hanunuo Mangyan poetry, thanks to a coffee table book, “Bamboo Whispers: Poetry of the Mangyans ...

MANILA, Philippines — At Sitio Galang in Mansalay’s Panaytayan village, sexagenarian Nayhan Using engages in a regular activity: weaving the traditional Hanunuo Mangyan textile ramit, a skill she ...

Hanunuo-Mangyan farmers from Barangay Benli in Bulalacao, Oriental Mindoro received aid from GMA Kapuso Foundation amid the effects of El Niño to their livelihood. As seen in a report on "24 Oras," ...

Anya Insik Postma did not know how great her Dutch anthropologist-father has been until she started to work with the nongovernment Mangyan Heritage Center Inc. (MHC) in the City of Calapan in Oriental ...