Mini-combine harvests rice faster and easier By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A small combine harvester developed by agricultural engineers of PhilRice [Philippine Rice Research Institute] now makes rice harvesting faster and easier as it performs four tasks simultaneously in one operation. The new machine is a modification of a 1.2 meter…

Commendation-absolution-preemption By +Oscar V. Cruz This early, there is already something confusing and disturbing that is taking place between the administration and the Melo Commission it brought to existence. Even before the commission formally starts its task of eventually identifying those responsible for the political abductions and killings in the…

Last resort for ‘survival’? By Gerry Garcia THE paranoid’s obsession for PGMA’s impeachment dating back to days after the ’04 presidential elections when she was pitted against the immensely popular but rather reluctant bet FPJ . . . is, hopefully, on the way out following the 2nd impeachment complaint’s being…

Sec. Arthur Yap is a Dagupeño By Jun Velasco MAYOR Benjie Lim, we’re sure, meant well when he had all those streamers “Dagupan City Must be Jueteng-free”  strung all over the city’s strategic street corners, but some naughty wags are quick to twist its meaning to mean that they (streamers)…

Careful with herbicides By Sosimo Ma. Pablico RICE FARMERS should now be careful with the use of herbicides or chemical weed killers, as two weed species in Nueva Ecija and Iloilo can no longer be controlled with the recommended application rates of three groups of herbicides. Dr. Madonna C. Casimero…

Categorical prohibition By +Oscar V. Cruz Church law categorically forbids clerics from assuming any public office whenever this means having a share in the exercise of civil power (Canon 285 Par. 3 CIC). This is universal church law. This prohibition applies to all deacons, priests and bishops of the Catholic…

Choral rebirth in Dagupan? By Gerry Garcia The University of Pangasinan Glee Club’s bagging top honors, together with Russia, in the choral competition in Xiamen, China mid-July (dubbed the 4th World Choir Games 2006) involving daw the “best groups” from 10 countries was, for this writer at least, amazing. Utterly…

‘Cyberscam’ By Jun Velasco “The discerning heart seeks knowledge, But the mouth of a fool feeds on folly”-  Proverbs l5:l4   WE had an interesting dialogue with young writers at a campus journalism seminar in Luna Colleges, Tayug, Pangasinan recently. School paper adviser   Rene Ordona, a fellow traveler in the…

Rice husk-fired power plants to be discussed in a forum By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The bright prospects of investing in the establishment of rice husk-fired power plants will be the focus of discussions in a forum at the Manila Hotel on Tuesday next week, August 22. Expected to attend the…

Quest for truth continues By +Oscar V. Cruz Lying repels. Cheating offends. Stealing disturbs. Combined, these three errant actuations are bad enough when attributed to but a private individual. He does not only lose self-respect but incites others to spurn and shun him. But when the same unethical behavioral patterns…