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Posted on June 29, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
GMA’s foreign trips
By Gonzalo Duque
WE were saddened by the passing of our friend, Games and Amusement Board Commissioner Ricardo Villamil at the age of 67. Ito, a former councilor of Dagupan City, was charter president of the Rotary Club of Dagupan East, which just held its induction of officers yesterday.
He was a no nonsense [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Liu Ping will help RP sire Olympic champs
By Gonzalo Duque
BEIJING–People’s China today is certainly the most organized, most scientific, most modern society.
It is probably the most powerful economy in the world now, what with the old world power, the United States, losing its grip of the title as a result of the global economic meltdown [...]
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Posted on June 15, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Jojo Acuin’s predictions
By Gonzalo Duque
LAST week, we had an interesting exchange of historical notes with local historians and scholars.
We already wrote about the subject in our previous column, but there were certain points we failed to mention. What’s significant was the eagerness of every member of the search and study committee in contributing to [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Pangasinan ‘history committee’ at work
By Gonzalo Duque
FRIDAY morning, we had an engaging exchange with Pangasinan historians and scholars who have been busy locating exactly the historic founding day, month and year of our beloved province of Pangasinan.
We thank Gov. Amado Espino Jr., alyas Spines, for all this bother so that we are able to tell [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Rep. JdV’s Korea-RP university ill timed
By Gonzalo Duque
BY way of making up for our many absences (sorry, brothers and sisters in Rotary), we wish to felicitate the brilliant and lovely souls of the Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan for making waves, yes, lately again. Nayari kayo, rather, nayari tayon amin awa?
The lady at center stage [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
On Pangasinan’s foundation date
By Gonzalo Duque
FRIDAY’S Manila headlines confirmed our fears that the dreaded A (H1N1) virus has finally invaded the country.
Brod Pingkoy, the Health secretary, was right all along. In spite of the defiant attitude of boxing icon Manny Pacquiao to belittle his warnings, he stood his ground that anyone coming from abroad, especially [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Fighting corruption
By Gonzalo Duque
WE missed the visit of Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Harry Ang Ping to Dagupan and Lingayen last Wednesday.
We were happy to learn though that he enjoyed his short but action-packed visit. He has been our buddy since our Philippine Jaycees days. He was then our national president while we skippered our [...]
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Posted on May 11, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Disaster preparedness
By Gonzalo Duque
WE join friends, relatives and admirers of Dr. Luciano Fernandez who passed away last week. He was 79.
He had just returned from People's Republic of China and Cambodia after a week-long trip when he died. He rejoins his wife, Richa, who had earlier died. His son, a good friend from way, way [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Beautiful woman defined
By Gonzalo Duque
HOW come, you ask, this columnist has acquired the temerity to write about the qualities of a beautiful woman?
We had a grand time munching the subject with the country’s sporting officials the likes of Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Harry Ang Ping, a former congressman of Manila and Philippine Jaycees president.
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Posted on April 27, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Manny talks
By Gonzalo Duque
OUR activities at the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) have given us interesting opportunities while hobnobbing with the great and near-great with ideas sprouting like pop corn that hopefully could lead to the formulation of a national sports development program. Do we see Pangulo smiling?
There she was at the Prisaa opening in [...]
