LOOKING FOR PA’S SAVIOUR — Korean business magnate Dukshin (D.S.) Park (right), guest of retired police director Reynaldo Velasco, relates his personal mission in the country to search and pay his father’s debt of gratitude in 1942 to an unknown Filipino farmer and his family in Bataan at a news…
A WEALTHY Korean businessman is looking for a family in Bataan province who gave shelter to his father when he deserted the Japanese Imperial Army in 1942 after refusing to fight Filipinos defending that peninsula during the Second World War. Dukshin (D.S.) Park, in his early 60s, said his late…
SAN CARLOS CITY – The Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF) has reasserted its “supremacy in nursing education” when it topped among nursing schools in Pangasinan and ranked third in the entire Region 1 based on the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) performance rates of nursing schools in licensure examination released…
MOBILE SHABU LAB — Police Regional Director Leopoldo Bataoil (left ) presents to media the plastic containers, drums, bottles and other paraphernalia for manufacturing shabu seized by the police from an abandoned mobile laboratory in Anapao, Burgos sometime in September. With him are Police Provincial Director Senior Supt. Alan Purisima…
REMEMBERING OUR DEAD SEA CREATURES– In preparation for All Saints’ Day on November 1, a worker of the National Fisheries Technology Development Center in Bonuan Binloc cleans the grave of a dead turtle entombed in the first known fish cemetery in the country. — (Ray Zambrano)
DRUG SYNDICATE CHANGES TACTIC LINGAYEN – There is a mobile shabu laboratory moving from place to place in Pangasinan, if not in the entire Region 1. This was the assessment of Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil, the new Philippine National Police (PNP) Regional Director, who ordered all units in the region…
THE Chinese government, through its ambassador to the Philippines, has pledged to finance a feasibility study for the construction of a pipeline system that will serve as a flood control and water supply structure for the rampaging waters from the mountains of San Roque Dam in San Manuel. House Speaker…
LINGAYEN — Watch out “kotong” cops, your happy days are over. This was the strong warning sent out by the newly-installed director of the Philippine National Police Region 1 office, Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil. “Never under my watch. That’s one thing I emphasized to them. Never should anyone of my…
MALASIQUI – The Provincial Board is adopting a very cautious stance over the controversial sanitary landfill project being proposed in the town of Bayambang. This was conveyed by Vice Governor Oscar Lambino, the board’s presiding officer, and indicated that a very careful study is needed in view of the strong…
AS anticipated, Dagupan’s Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP) questioned on Monday the P18-million increase in the city’s proposed P375-million budget for 2007, which was submitted by the mayor’s office the previous week. The council raised doubts as to where the funding will be sourced considering no new ordinances for enhancing revenue collection…
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