THE WOODEN SNAKE DANCE IN DAGUPAN— Members of the Dagupan Panda Lion Dragon WuShu Team perform in their colorful costumes during the parade along downtown Dagupan to welcome the Lunar New Year 2025, the Year of the Wooden Snake, and celebrate the Dagupan City Chinese Heritage Day. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
IN high spirits over Dagupan’s anticipated economic surge and transformation this year, Mayor Belen Fernandez led the city’s Filipino-Chinese community on January 28 in welcoming the Year of the Wooden Snake in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The occasion was marked with a colorful motorcade along the central business district, which culminated at…
AS we usher in the year of the Chinese Wooden Snake, many have expressed hopes that the protracted political animosities seen at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod will finally come to an end. While the five minority members (Councilors Michael Fernandez, Jigs Seen, Dennis Canto, Kap. Marcelino “Lino” Fernandez and SK…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Guico-Parayno feud is turning out to be like the wild forest fire that hit Los Angeles recently. The bush fire was started by Guv Mon-mon Guico and it has since spread like a wild fire and no one can predict how and where it…
By Gonzalo Duque AS I’m writing this column, we were requested by our publisher that we submit our articles earlier. But two rallies are to be staged on January 31st, one at EDSA calling for the impeachment of both Vice President Sara Duterte and President Bongbong Marcos. The other will…
By Leonardo Micua IT remains a puzzle who uploaded the fake news that former Governor Pogi Espino has withdrawn from the race after supposedly being appointed interim secretary of the Presidential Communications Office, which Espino himself flatly denied. The same fake news claimed that Espino’s running mate, former Dasol Mayor Noel…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IT took twenty-nine years for Taguig to win a boundary dispute with Makati, from 22 November 1993 to 03 April 2023. In 2023, the Supreme Court affirmed Taguig’s jurisdiction over the Fort Bonifacio military reservation (including Bonifacio Global City and the ten Enlisted Men’s Barrios…
By Farah G. Decano BELOW is an annotation by Atty. Daphne Areola of a Supreme Court decision penned by Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. With her permission, I thought of sharing this here. “The family is considered an inviolable social institution in the Philippine Constitution, symbolizing its importance in society….
By Eva C. Visperas A groundbreaking medical procedure at Region 1 Medical Center’s (R1MC) Department of Ophthalmology and Eye Center restored the vision of a patient who had long suffered from severe eye damage due to a chemical injury. For the first time in Pangasinan, the Boston Keratoprosthesis, a…
By Rex Catubig “INTSIK tsonga”, “Tsikwa”– are just two of the monikers they are condescendingly called, implying disdain in how they are regarded, which reveals our bias and cultural ignorance. My father was privileged to enjoy a close association with the Chinese in the lumber business. I grew up…
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