BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
Transcom Asia, a call center company based in Europe, will start operating in Bacolod City in September 2009 with 800 personnel, Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia said yesterday.
Leonardia said the call center, which will be located at Lopue’s South Square in Brgy. Tangub, targets to hire 2,000 to 3,000 employees.
Leonardia, with Vice [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ  (www.visayandailystar.com)
A Research Institute for Tropical Medicine test yesterday confirmed that one of the two American missionaries earlier confined at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City was positive for Influenza A(H1N1), Health Regional Director Ariel Valencia said.
Found positive for H1N1 was a 20-year-old male from San Diego, California, who [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ  (www.visayandailystar.com)
The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine yesterday confirmed three patients positive for influenza A(H1N1) in Western Visayas, two of them brothers who returned to Bacolod from the United States, DOH Regional Director Ariel Valencia said.
“Although the patients were found positive, they all exhibited mild symptoms of fever, cough and sore throat,” Valencia [...]

The winners of the Bulawan Awards for Product Excellence, an annual initiative of the Association of Negros Producers as a vehicle to spur the creativity of its members and encourage them to innovate new products, were announced yesterday.
There were no awardees in some categories because only products that reached a score level of at least [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
Two male American missionaries with fever were admitted at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City yesterday for possible Influenza A(H1N1), Health Regional Director Ariel Valencia confirmed last night.
The missionaries aged 20 and 53 years old were admitted for observation, he said.
They arrived in the Philippines on June [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
Health Regional Director Ariel Valencia said the 17-year-old student found positive for Influenza A(H1N1) was discharged from the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City yesterday and, so far, there is no indication that anyone who came in contact with her was infected.
The student was hit by A(H1N1) at De La [...]

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About 1,674 job hunters joined the Independence Day job fairs of the Bacolod City Public Employment and Services Office and the Department of Labor and Employment in search of local and overseas hiring opportunities yesterday.
A total of 887 persons registered for their job fair at Robinson’s Place, nine of whom were hired on the spot [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ (www.visayandailystar.com)
An Indian national who arrived from HongKong is under observation for possible Influenza A(H1N1) at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City, Gov. Isidro Zayco said last night.
Zayco said he has ordered Dr. Luisa Efren, Provincial Health Officer, to ensure close monitoring of the case.
She said it [...]

By Carla Gomez (visayandailystar.com)

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A blog with over 2.5 million worldwide visitors a month has featured The Ruins in Talisay City, Negros Occidental as among the 12 of the world’s most fascinating ruins.
Oddee at www.oddee.com, a blog that “features, odd, strange and bizarre things” in the world, ranked The Ruins in the [...]