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August 2006

Two LTO men face extort raps over drug tests

By | Business, Inside News, News

LINGAYEN – Two employees of the Land Transportation Office LTO based here are in hot water after they were caught receiving marked money from employees of two drug testing centers.   P/Supt. Harris Fama, spokesman of the Police Provincial Office, identified the suspects as one Felix Salazar, an LTO Licensing…

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Two LTO men face extort raps over drug tests

Seaplanes to service tourists in Hundred Islands

By | Business, Inside News, News

ALAMINOS CITY – Around this city and landing on the waters of Hundred Islands will soon be a regular occurrence. Next month, AeroFlite Airways, a Filipino-owned company, is set to base two 12-seater seaplanes here for flights over the islands or to other beach destinations in Luzon and Visayas. Capt….

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Seaplanes to service tourists in Hundred Islands

Isuzu turns over mangrove park to Alaminos government

By | Business, Inside News, News

ALAMINOS–A Japanese firm in the Philippines celebrated its ninth anniversary here by turning over a five-hectare mangrove park it established in the Hundred Islands National Park here. Isuzu Philippines Corporation led by its president Yoshifumi Komura turned over the mangrove park including thousands of mangrove propagules to Alaminos City Mayor…

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Isuzu turns over mangrove park to Alaminos government

LNU, UL fives in hot start

By | News, People & Events, Sports

 By Jesus Garcia Jr. LAST YEAR’s runners-up, the University of Luzon (UL) Golden Tigers and the Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) Dukes drubbed their respective opponents last Tuesday during the opening of hostilities of the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) Inter-Collegiate Invitational Basketball Championship held at Dagupan People’s Astrodome. The unpredictable…

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LNU, UL fives in hot start

UPang Webczars crush PIMSAT dribblers

By | News, People & Events, Sports

By Jesus Garcia Jr. WHETHER Whether it’s an official game or just a goodwill match, the University of Pangasinan Webczars shows no mercy. They’re always out to prove that they are the team to reckon with in Pangasinan’s collegiate basketball tourneys.        The UPang quintet also known as the Pitaki…

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UPang Webczars crush PIMSAT dribblers

YMCA Dagupan bags 4 bronzes in Milo karate tilt

By | News, People & Events, Sports

YMCA based Team Dagupan won 4 Bronzes in the Milo Super Karate Kids for 11 years old below held July 30, 2006 at SM Megamall, Mandaluyong in Metro Manila. The winners are 11-year old John Meverick Edralin of Creative Montessori-Lyceum Northwestern, 9-year old Gian Mark Tamayo of West Central Elem….

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YMCA Dagupan bags 4 bronzes in Milo karate tilt

Punchline

By | Opinion, Punchline

Lying and stealing in Dagupan City By Ermin Garcia Jr. What’s the truth about Dagupan City’s financial condition? On one hand, an obstinate Lim administration continues to deny that the city government is bankrupt, yet and on the other, the Lim allies in the Sanggunian Panglunsod are falling over themselves…

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Punchline

By August 6, 2006Opinion, Punchline

Here and There

By | Archives, Opinion

Readers’ E-mailed reactions more credible By Gerry Garcia IN this province as probably elsewhere in this benighted Republic the national daily most often preferred and read is the Philippine Star. At least from this writer’s impression, who often finds the copies all sold out before noon in his favorite news-stands….

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Here and There

By August 6, 2006Archives, Opinion

Think about it

By | Archives, Opinion

Where change begins By Jun Velasco AT PRESSTIME, Task Force Lebanon reported of two casualties who, probably gripped by fright, died while trying to escape from their Lebanese employers. Most of our countrymen who have succeeded in returning to the fatherland are full of horror stories. Many families – Pinoys…

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Think about it

By August 6, 2006Archives, Opinion