AT first glance, there's nothing cutting edge about this isolated highland town of mud-brick homes and cold mountain streams.

Travel through highland towns to reach Malawi.

It was actually painted in a small farmhouse near the Scottish highland town of Calendar.

Reinforcements arrived at the western highland town more than five hours after they first phoned for help - too late to prevent the sacking and burning of the police station, which to this day is unoccupied.

Army troops killed four Haitian youths attending a meeting Saturday in the central highland town of Labadie, a local radio station reported today.

Here begins the Presbyterian country, settled by the Scotch Irish who came down the valley from the north and built the highland towns.

The 340-ton shipment is expected to arrive in the central highland town of Huambo by Saturday.

It is one of the highland towns forming the southern extremity of the province.

A pleasant watercolour of the Scottish highland town of Callander painted by Stevenson adds another note of interest.

Since the municipality is one of Benguet's highland towns, the town's vegetable farmers have been hit three times by frost, causing millions of damage to crops.