Cool rice for a warmer world By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Rice breeders throughout the world are now being challenged by climate change to develop cool rice varieties for a warmer world, as the current varieties may no longer be productive under rising temperature condition in the near future. In a…
Wrong and unpopular By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. To be right and unpopular is not wrong. But to be wrong and unpopular is right. Herein lies the wrong conclusion of the national leadership attempting to believe that its unpopularity is because of doing what is right. The truth is…
Charity begins at home By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE much-awaited 2007 PRISAA Pangasinan-Dagupan Basketball Invitational Championship, dubbed this year as “Mayor Al’s Cup”, was formally opened last Thursday morning with much fanfare. The sports-minded Alipio Fernandez, Jr., Dagupan’s mayor, delivered a morale-boosting speech as the keynote speaker, while Atty….
ANOTHER MEGA PROJECT P700 million worth,to be built in 3 years ALAMINOS City is it. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in her State of the Nation Address Monday, announced that an airport will be constructed in this city, home to the Hundred Islands National Park. Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza, overjoyed by the…
Georgina de Venecia, wife of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., said her husband’s victory for a fifth term at the top post of the House of Representatives is the “sweetest” because “we won the fight the hard way”. Mrs. de Venecia said they had to go through a tough campaign…
LINGAYEN–A woman with a string of arrest warrants for various crimes was finally arrested by the local police here Thursday in Barangay Lasip following a wide manhunt. Nabbed was Leah Mendoza dela Cruz, 29, resident of Avenida Rizal, Barangay Poblacion, who is wanted for a long list of cases for…
TAYUG– The town’s police appears headed for a collision with the mayor in an effort to enforce the law. This became apparent after three bodyguards of the mayor were tagged as suspects in a murder on Tuesday, but have repeatedly snubbed the invitation of the police for questioning. Senior Inspector…
Private school administrators nationwide are adopting a new policy geared towards promoting better health and saving the environment. Dr. Gonzalo Duque, president of the Dagupan-based Lyceum-Northwestern University and newly elected president of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU), said their members have agreed to turn their group into…
We are waiting. This was the response of City Legal Officer George Mejia to queries if the city government has already been charged by MetroState Realty Corporation as a result of the order to stop the latter’s P84 million tourism-commercial project at the former Magsaysay Market. Mejia said the city…
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