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Editorial
Nightmarish education WHETHER our educators today like it or not, the embarrassing results of the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that placed Filipinos ranking among the lowest in the world in the company of Dominican Republic, Kosovo and Lebanon should kick them in the butt. Those results created a stigma not only our […]
Punchline
PANGASINAN GAMES, why not? By Ermin Garcia Jr. EVEN before the ongoing 30th S.E.A. Games breaks up next week, lessons and opportunities are already learned and offered to us as a people, as Pangasinenses. Let’s start with the sports that we can excel in South East Asia arena. (Note: There’s a whale of difference in […]
General Admission
2nd SEA Games crown virtually in the bag By Al S. Mendoza AS I write this, we are ahead by a whopping 32 gold medals over Vietnam. We are now way past the halfway mark of the 12-day Games and it will be next to impossible for Vietnam to overhaul our lead. More so with […]
G Spot
Single Blessedness By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I am not surprised that people have a certain curiosity about single persons. But I am surprised at some of the questions asked about them in the academe. Here is a list of the questions sent by a student as part of their academic requirements (quoted verbatim): 1. Please […]
Sports Eye
Urdaneta, Anda, Sto. Tomas quintets remain unbeaten By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER six days of skirmishes, win-loss records of three teams in their respective brackets remain untarnished in the ongoing 4th Governor’s Cup Pangasinan Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament being conducted in a home-and-away format. Led by defending champion Urdaneta City, the perennial eastern Pangasinan team […]
Learnings in Life
Date with a Woman By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read on Facebook in Moral Stories group page that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. Author Unknown AFTER 21 years of Marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said […]
Random Thoughts
Dagupan in a water world By Leonardo Micua A research study by the science organization Climate Central, published in many journals of the world (and readily available on the internet) gives us an impending bizarre scenario of what could happen to the planet in the next 30 years due to the impact of climate change. […]