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NEXT BORACAY WITH A DIFFERENCE Lahus Island in the remote town of Caramoan in Camarines Sur with its stunning feature of a back-to-back beach is just one of a spread of pristine islets with powdery white sand. One of them, Gota beach, is the site of the French edition’s eighth season of the wildly popular reality TV show, “Survivor.” According to Gov. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, the local government will implement a P200-million development plan in the peninsular town to include the building of roads and an airport. Unlike Boracay, Caramoan’s development will be strictly monitored, Villafuerte says. MUNICIPAL GOV’T OF CARAMOAN

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STREET ART. Makati residents, led by social realists Edgar Talusan-Fernandez and Neil Doloricon, turn Ayala Avenue in the heart of the country’s financial district into a giant canvas for nature-inspired chalk images as the city celebrates its 338th founding day. ROGER MARGALLO

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BACK FROM IRELAND. Eleven overseas Filipino workers, who say they were maltreated on their ship in Ireland, arrive in Manila. PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/RUDY ESPERAS

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THE ISOLATION can be overwhelming, but the unspoiled beaches and seamless horizon provide a cutting edge over even world-famous Boracay. “There, when you go underwater, you’d see plastic. Here, you’d see fishes,” says soldier Wilson Dajao of Pag-asa, home to 50 composite troops from the Army, Navy and Air Force on a six-month tour of duty and some 300 civilians. It’s a barangay in Palawan’s municipality of Kalayaan. PHOTO BY ERNIE U. SARMIENTO

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PRODUCTIVE EXCHANGE. International Rice Research Institute director general Robert Zeigler (2nd from right) and Darshan Brar, division head plant breeding and genetics, tour President Arroyo and Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap (at left) through its ricefields in Los Baños, Laguna, planted to high-yielding varieties and hybrids. INQUIRER/RAFFY LERMA

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ALL ALONE. A resident along Commonwealth Road in Quezon City inspects the area where a wall collapsed during a downpour Thursday, killing four people.