More legal woes for Mr. ACC By Ermin Garcia Jr. BUSINESSMAN Antonio Cabangon Chua, whose bid won the MC Adore properties, must already rue the day he agreed to make a “bid” at the instance of Messrs. Benjie Lim, Tony Uy et al. His trophy acquisition in Dagupan accomplished…
Jewels in a haystack By Jun Velasco “The company of just and upright man is better than wealth and a real estate,” Euripides IN spite of man’s inherent propensity for greed which is shaking our governmental institutions—the Palace, the Supreme Court, the Legislature (Senate and House of Representatives),…
Mango is good for diabetes—US medical journal By Gonzalo Duque GEORGIA, USA—Manlaldis so balita ditan! Sorry, folks, we missed the deadline last week. No, actually, we misread the Decorp. We thought it could not restore power that soon. Yon pala, it was back at 11 am. It was evening…
Even billionaires can be fooled, too By Al S. Mendoza THE basketball republic was mad and the anger was justified. They were made to believe Gilas Pilipinas will engage the NBA Stars in a basketball game on Tuesday, July 22. They virtually packed the Cubao Big Dome in Quezon…
It’s a smaller world for drug traffickers By Bebot Villar WHEN a campaign against the illegal drugs is indeed serious, we get good results. That’s why the Police Regional Office 1 is very proud about its accomplishments for the past half year. It confiscated almost half a billion worth…
Unforgiveable faux pas By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. I’M sure you were just as dismayed as I was last Tuesday evening when the much-publicized NBA Stars versus Gilas Pilipinas tune-up game that we had looked forward to did not materialize due to lapses in coordination between the organizers and NBA…
Punchin’ beyond 58! By Johanne R. Macob OUR Sunday Punch has been around since 1956. Though I knew about The PUNCH when I was still in high school (thanks to my active involvement in our school paper), it wasn’t until my senior year in college when I fully understood what it stands…
BY PUNCH STAFF THE P40 MILLION LOAN IN MANGALDAN. The row over the construction of phase 2 of the market can easily be resolved by an open communication between the contending parties. Both have valid arguments but they are proceeding in different directions. Even the protest rally was needless….
The newspapers’ abominable racket By Ermin Garcia Jr. HERE we go again. In the early 90s, I had warned the regional courts in Pangasinan about abuses being committed by a number of community newspaper publishers, violating the law on publication of judicial notices with impunity at the expense of…
Go for it, Mayor Belen! By Jun Velasco “Teaching children to count is not s important as teaching them what counts” E.C. –McKenzie WE had a tough time doing this column. Last Friday, the Punch’s deadline, the city was a sad victim of a 5-hour brownout which somehow…
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