Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez took over as acting mayor of this city on Thursday, after Mayor Benjamin Lim suffered a stroke and was brought to Metro Manila for treatment.
For gobbling up two grilled “bangus” (milkfish) in a little over a minute, Edgar Grado erased last year’s bangus-eating contest record during the Bangus Rodeo, an event of the Bangus Festival here.
There’s now a corner at the city museum here where the memorabilia of national artist for visual arts Victorio Edades are permanently displayed.
A resident here has filed criminal and administrative complaints against Mayor Benjamin Lim for supposedly ordering the release of the city’s calamity fund to buy relief goods despite the absence of a declaration of a state of calamity from the city council in 2010.
In a week, three persons here have died of leptospirosis while seven others are being treated in different hospitals, a health official said on Thursday.
In a span of a week, three persons here have died of leptospirosis while seven others are being treated in different hospitals, a health official said on Thursday.
Twenty-two years after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake shook the coastal city of Dagupan in Pangasinan, Mayor Benjamin Lim still vividly remembers the ensuing panic and chaos that almost turned the place into a ghost town.
Land conversion and aquaculture are taking their toll on this city’s mangrove forest, a report from the Coastal and Marine Management Division (CMMD) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said.
The first thing Mayor Benjamin Lim had intended to accomplish when he first became mayor in 2001 was to solve the city’s mounting garbage problem.
At least 70 dogs were saved from being slaughtered after policemen in Sta. Maria, Pangasinan, blocked a van transporting the animals to Baguio City on Wednesday night.
AFTER MAKING a name for itself as “bangus” (milkfish) capital of the Philippines, Dagupan City wants to have another feather on its cap—the place to have the best organic “lechon” (roasted pig) in the country. The city government on Tuesday staged a cook-off at the plaza to search for the best special lechon, a contest [...]
Now it’s Dagupan’s oysters’ turn to take the limelight.
Drawing about 40,000 tourists since it was launched last year as part of the annual Bangus Festival, the Dawel River cruise would now include unique attractions showcasing this city’s culture and history to bring the attraction’s value a notch higher.
