ZAMBOANGA CITY , Philippines — A worker was killed when an improvised explosive device went off at a rubber plantation in Sumisip, Basilan yesterday. John Roy Alvarez, 35, of the Mangal Agrarian ...
On a warm January day in 1924, W.E.B. Du Bois looked out over an abandoned plantation, a forest of more than 200,000 rubber trees, in neat rows, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The ...