San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines

RP-Thai Food & Fruit Festival at Villa Escudero

The Royal Thai Embassy in Manila and Team Thailand in the Philippines in cooperation with Villa Escudero Plantations and Resorts will organize a Thai-Philippine Cultural Show on 27 – 28 February 2010 (lunch begins at 12.00 noon followed by the cultural show) at Villa Escudero Plantations and Resort, San Pablo City, Laguna.
A popular Thai Dance [...]

Saving San Pablo’s Seven Lakes

Agenda For Hope — By Teresita R. Perez

San Pablo City in Laguna province is famous for its seven lakes. The lakes are volcanic in origin, but the folklore handed down from one generation to another identifies a fairy or diwata as the one responsible for transforming an orchard or a garden into the lakes as [...]

People’s Day with Loren Legarda

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Loren Legarda recently marked her 50th birthday with a unique People’s Day celebration offering job fair, free medical, dental, haircut, eyeglasses services plus environmental education for many thousands of well-wishers in San Pablo Central Elementary School in her father’s hometown of San Pablo City, Laguna. Students of various schools (including winners [...]

Robinsons Land building 10 new malls – San Pablo City

by Jenniffer B. Austria
Robinsons Land Corp., the property unit of business tycoon John Gokongwei, plans to build 10 new shopping malls over the next two to three years in a bid to catch up with SM Prime Holdings Inc., the country’s leading retail operator and developer.
SM Prime currently operates 36 malls in the Philippines and [...]

Palace urges unity for progress

MANILA (PNA) — Malacañang is urging Filipinos to unite in building upon President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s socio-economic gains for the Philippines. “If we continue working together after June this year, I think we’ll see further advances for the country,” deputy presidential spokesperson Ricardo Saludo said.
If we continue working together after June this year, I think [...]

PGMA campaigns for RP bet in New 7 Wonders of Nature search

PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan (PND) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo campaigned hard here today, not for any candidate in the May elections, but for the Philippines’ entry in the Search for the New Seven Wonders of Nature, now being voted worldwide in the internet online.
She urged all Filipinos here and abroad to cast their votes through the [...]