BUSINESS LOG - SM soon to rise in Urdaneta
Posted on December 3, 2002 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
There’s no stopping the economic boom of Urdaneta City. I remember that no less than Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim once predicted that it would become the next business trade center in Pangasinan.
True enough, everytime I pass by that city, I see new establishments being put up.
Last time I had a talk with Urdaneta City [...]
Chowking's growth in good and tough times
Posted on December 3, 2002 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
CHOWKING, the largest Oriental quick-service restaurant chair, has found a formula to keep in step with changing customer tastes. It's called product innovation. Every quarter, Chow-king reviews its menu and strengthens it by reengineering old products and introducing new ones. For this year alone, the restaurant chain came out with nine new products in a [...]
BSP warns public of text scam
Posted on December 3, 2002 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas today warned the public of a text-based scam reported by some victims wherein a recipient of a text message is informed that he won a raffle based on his cellphone number. The alleged prize ranges from P1.5 million to P2.5 million; however, the “winner” is requested to first deposit money [...]
BSP warns public of text scam
Posted on December 3, 2002 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas today warned the public of a text-based scam reported by some victims wherein a recipient of a text message is informed that he won a raffle based on his cellphone number. The alleged prize ranges from P1.5 million to P2.5 million; however, the “winner” is requested to first deposit money [...]
High potentials in ducks eyed
Posted on December 3, 2002 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
STA. BARBARA-The potential of the duck industry in Pangasinan and the entire Region 1 is high , according to experts who spoke during the Regional Duck Festival held November 25-26 at the Farmers’ Pavilion and Training Center here. The two-day festival was sponsored jointly by the regional field office of the Department of Agriculture headed [...]
The elusive kolorums
Posted on December 1, 2002 - Filed Under Editorial | Leave a Comment
The tricycle, motorized or foot-powered, is today the undisputed king of local interior roads, a descendant of sort of the horse-driven calesa of yesteryears. Collectively called the mosquito fleet, these 3-wheeled matchboxes have become overwhelmingly numerous in this city and the three other cities of San Carlos, Urdaneta and Alaminos without mentioning the growing communities [...]
Tragedy mars Dagupeña's wish
Posted on December 1, 2002 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
She wanted to go home this Christmas to ask forgiveness from his father after she eloped with her boyfriend last May. But she never had the chance. She was raped, murdered and her body burned by the suspect who turned out to be her boyfriend’s relative.
Aberdeen Pasion, 22, of Malued district, Dagupan City was [...]
All-out ban versus alien Bangus Asked
Posted on December 1, 2002 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
THEY are back!
The inferior quality bangus from Laguna and Bulacan that taste like mud continue to be dumped in the city market, sending the price of the real Dagupan bangus spiraling down to the great disadvantage of local fish pond and pen operators.
The inflow of alien bangus continues daily, infuriating lovers of the [...]
Shabu laboratories blunt anti-drug drive
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LINGAYEN- The police may be winning the war against illegal drugs but the recent string of successful discovery and raids on shabu laboratories are not enough to indicate that the war has been won.
This was stressed by Philippine National Police Director General Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. who addressed the opening of the one-day workshop for [...]
Two rebels killed, 8 captured
Posted on December 1, 2002 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
SAN QUINTIN-The communist New People’s Army suffered another set back when two members were killed and eight others captured in an encounter with police and army soldiers in sitio Bolarit, Barangay Balintagen here early Thursday morning.
Chief Superintendent Arturo Lomibao, Jr., police regional director, said the operation was participated in by elements of the l07th [...]
