Playing with Fire

Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment

Dr. Lucio Tan in town

By Gonzalo Duque

ZAMBOANGA CITY — This lovely city reminds us of our grade school song.
‘Don’t you go, don’t you go to far Zamboanga…” but we went, and here we are.
But we were not here for fun. We were here to co-preside over the PRISSA games.
We can’t forget the one [...]

General Admission

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Marquez mars Manny's day

By Al S. Mendoza

MANNY Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez recently showed the other side of their lives.
Pacquiao is humble, Marquez rude.
Interviewed on TV by ABS-CBN on April 6 during the “Invasion:  The Philippines vs The World” boxing card at the Araneta Coliseum, both fighters dished off contrasting personalities.
Marquez unleashed gutter behavior [...]

Harvest Time

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Public investments needed in improving rice productivity: I

By Sosimo Ma. Pablico

The message of all this arithmetic is clear.  Without investments in improving rice productivity and efforts to manage the denominator of the rice-population equation, along with a focus on local-level potentials for growth, we will have to "run even faster just to stay in [...]

Sports Eye

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Pangasinan athletes shine again

By Jesus A. Garcia

THE five-day Tour de East Java bicycle marathon where our local boys participated was concluded last Sunday and our all-Pangasinense squad representing the Philippines landed fifth out of 22 teams from different countries in Asia including the host Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Iran, Qatar, Taiwan, China, Kazakhstan, Taiwan and [...]

Viewpoints

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Republic of shortages

By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

This country is now a land of big and shameful shortages. First, there were shortages of fertilizers, ballot boxes as well as votes. Then, there were shortages of commissions, “bukols” or “longpats”. Now, there are shortages of rice, pigs and irrigation systems. Lately, there seem to be [...]

Roots

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Summer heat

By Marifi Jara

Summer seems to have come so suddenly this year.
One day on the second week of March, it was still quite chilly in the late afternoon until early morning and nicely cool during the daytime, then the next day, as if from nowhere, the heat came to signal that summer has [...]

Feelings

Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment

Between here and there . . .
(Conclusion)

By Emmanuelle

For a week, Manta would be a special guest of the city and of this man of influence. And Chuck would be one of the local celebrities invited to their late afternoon soirees and evening sorties.
Manta learns Chuck and his woman had split ways without even trekking [...]

PINOYS IN MANITOBA

Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under News, Overseas, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment

PINOYS IN MANITOBA– Filipinos based in Thompson City, Manitoba, Canada, get together regularly for updates from home. Among them is Engr. Kevin Carolino (seated extreme left 2nd row) a native of Bolinao. The economic boom in Manitoba has since attracted many Filipino professionals, including nurses, to the city.

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