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Reject students pleading, STC asks court
ST. Theresa’s College (STC) asked the court to deny the pleading filed by two parents whose daughters were barred from the school’s March 30 graduation rites. STC lawyer Joan Largo opposed the parents’ request to cite the school in default for failing to answer their plea for intervention in the case. The girls were […]
Abused dog gets new lease on life
October 14, 2012
Hungry and with no place to go, Kenneth appeared doomed to wander the streets and being chased away by people for his ugly and fearful appearance. But pedicab driver Roberto “Janjan” Solon took in the six-month-old stray dog, whose upper face was hacked by his previous unnamed owner. An operation and a few days later, […]
DOH-7 secures Facebook, signature support for sin tax bill
October 12, 2012
ABOUT 50,000 signatures supporting the passage of a sin tax reform bill were gathered by the Department of Health in Central Visayas. However DOH said if one were to count the “Likes” and “Shares” of their anti-smoking campaign photo, their supporters count to a million. In the DOH-CHD-7 official Facebook page, a photo that […]
41 Ceres buses in Cebu Wi-Fi ready
October 12, 2012
by Aileen Garcia-Yap, Reporter TARGETING the tech-savvy tourists and businessmen heading to the different countryside destinations in Cebu, the Yanson Group of Bus Companies operating the Ceres Bus Liners added Wi-Fi capability to 41 of their buses plying the southern Cebu routes. Engr. Anselmo C. Ambos Jr., the bus liner’s Cebu manager, said the bus […]
Fiscal drops case against STC
September 14, 2012
The Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office dismissed one of the cases filed against St. Theresa’s College (STC) after one of the complainants backed off. The complainant earlier filed a child abuse complaint against STC “for unjustly imposing a sanction” after she was barred from joining her classmates in their graduation rites last March 30. STC lawyer […]
Facebook, smartphones impact on Lexmark’s printer business
August 30, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO— Lexmark is jettisoning its inkjet printers and laying off 1,700 workers as paper becomes increasingly passe in an age of ever-sleeker digital devices and online photo albums on Internet hangouts like Facebook. The shake-up announced last Tuesday is the latest fallout from the growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers that make it […]
Lexmark confirms 2015 closure of inkjet plant, loss of 1-T jobs
August 30, 2012
Several employees of the inkjet printer plant of Lexmark International Phils. in Lapu-Lapu City had an inkling about their management’s plans to close down operations by 2015. Those plans were made official in yesterday’s press conference, when Lexmark officials confirmed that about 1,100 employees will be laid off three years from now as part of […]
Cebu Daily News 
November 2, 2012
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