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September 2008

Playing with Fire

By | Archives, Opinion

What’s happening to our fish-rich rivers, Mrs. Molina? By Gonzalo Duque WE’RE in Las Vegas while we write this column. Our hosts, Raffy Villamil and pretty wife, Elvie, have been making our stay here very enjoyable and meaningful especially at the Palazzo Hotel, you can stretch your imagination how the…

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Playing with Fire

By September 24, 2008Archives, Opinion

Harvest Time

By | Archives, Opinion

The vanishing rice farming rituals in Ifugao By Sosimo Ma. Pablico EVEN as a considerable number of Ifugao farmers no longer believe in the rice farming rituals of their ancestors, others stubbornly insist their ethnic group must continue performing those traditional rituals, saying these are their way of life. Those…

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Harvest Time

By September 23, 2008Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

By | Archives, Opinion

Economic Fundamental By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Whenever the government wants to claim that the country is well geared for economic development or wishes to proclaim that the Philippines is in many ways over and above a given financial crisis such as the one actually taking place in the…

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Viewpoints

By September 23, 2008Archives, Opinion

Roots

By | Archives, Opinion

Machambas By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–The police are doing it. Students in public schools have been and continue to be into it. A balikbayan has taken an initiative to get his former barangay involved in it. Another community is coalescing with the government for it. Vegetable gardening, that is. Or…

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Roots

By September 23, 2008Archives, Opinion

Feelings

By | Feelings, Opinion

Mirrors to ourselves By Emmanuelle PRAISE be on us, but blame be on no other. We were the die from which these children were cast. We were their mirrors; they, mere shadows to our forms. Until they be the die, the mirror, the form themselves. And on passes the cycle…

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Feelings

By September 23, 2008Feelings, Opinion

AIDA SERVANDO REGINO

By | In memory of...

AIDA SERVANDO REGINO of Mamburao, Mindoro Occidental and Dagupan City (September 18, 1932 -September 21, 2008) Peacefully joined our Creator on September 21, 2008 at the age of 76. Her loving husband, Retired Justice Teodorp P. Regino, children Teodoro Jr. & Mary Anne, Jeremy & Arlene, Vivian, Merle & Patrick, Joel & Marilou,…

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AIDA SERVANDO REGINO

By September 23, 2008In memory of...

Politics eyed as one motive

By | Headlines, News

CALASIAO MUNICIPAL BUILDING FIRE CALASIAO–The town’s residents will not be content with the promised standard investigation and are pressing for a deeper probe into the fire that razed the town’s municipal building and the Tesoro shrine to the ground at dawn on Monday. While authorities are now investigating the fire,…

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Politics eyed as one motive

By September 23, 2008Headlines, News

Firemen in hot water for late response; chief was 3 hours late

By | Headlines, News

THE Calasiao fire department is under probe for alleged delayed response during the incident. Mayor Roy Macanlalay told The PUNCH that Fire Chief Inspector Emilio Langkay and his men will be investigated separately by the local officials while another investigation is being conducted by the regional office of the Bureau…

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Firemen in hot water for late response; chief was 3 hours late

By September 23, 2008Headlines, News