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The city government-owned Sagay City Piggery Farm is free from African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, according to the latest report from the Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office.The latest surveillance conducted by the Sagay City Veterinary Office of the city piggery yielded negative results from the Real-Time PCR ASF Test, a press release from the city said.Mayor Narciso "Narwin" Javelosa Jr. said that this is a welcome development especially to the hog raisers in the city as it assured that the pigs in Sagay are safe and secure.He also said that through the City Veterinary Office, more programs will be implemented to protect the livestock of Sagaynon farmers this year.*

Leading digital solutions platform Globe made a significant stride in ensuring online safety for children in 2023, blocking a total 489,849 child pornography sites last year, a 22 percent jump from the 401,487 sites blocked in 2022.The number of disabled URLs hosting lewd content went up by 21.8 percent, reaching 486,802 in 2023 from 399,550 in the previous year. The figure for blocked domains also saw a 56.5 percent surge to 3,047 in 2023 from 1,947 in the same period the year before, a press release from Globe said.“We believe that a safer digital environment for our children requires a multi-pronged approach. Beyond blocking harmful content, we want to foster a culture of vigilance, awareness, and collaboration to protect the most vulnerable members of our society from the perva...

BPO in Bacolod City is a thriving industry with plenty of companies offering all sorts of customer service roles. But, that can actually make it harder to identify the most interesting job opportunities in Bacolod. With so many seemingly identical types of BPO work, how can you tell which customer experience company is the best fit for you?Nowadays, the BPO industry is starting to value job satisfaction, career growth, and overall happiness more. People want well-being, a positive work environment, things that can ensure a good employee experience. It isn’t always just about the salary and one-time bonuses anymore. People want a customer service representative career that flourishes because of supportive colleagues, understanding leaders, and a workplace culture that values people....

GCash Chief Legal Officer Maricor Alvarez-Adriano, GXI Chief Legal Officer Gilbert Escoto, Oscar "Renren" Reyes - G-Xchange Inc (GXI) President and CEO, NBI Director Medardo de Lemos and NBI Deputy Director for Operations Jose Justo Yap (l-r) at the signing ceremony.*The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and GCash, the country’s number one finance super app, have signed a memorandum of agreement to further strengthen their collaboration to go after perpetrators of online fraud, scams, and other cybercrimes.Under the partnership, GCash will assist NBI in preventing, detecting, investigating, and prosecuting cyber crimes that involve the use of the GCash mobile app or the transfer or receipt of proceeds from any crime or unlawful activity, a press release the firm said.This ...

Homegrown star turned global pop icon Sandara Park finds her way back to the Philippines to partner with the country’s leading low-calorie beer, San Mig Light. Sandara reveals that the collaboration could not have come at a better time and reveals that it feels like “finally meeting my long-lost family.”“I’m really grateful to have such wonderful experience. It’s like being embraced by lightness and fun, just like the brand and just like me,” Sandara shares.Sandara’s career started in the Philippines when she appeared in the pilot season of the reality-based talent search Star Circle Quest where she finished as a runner up in the competition. She rose to fame soon after, starring in multiple box-office movies and producing a platinum selling album.In 2007, Sandara moved back to...

Teleperformance’s HR Diversity and Inclusion member Aileen Gay Sibal interprets for the executive leaders and the audience at the MOA signing event with Benilde Deaf School. *Marking a groundbreaking step towards deaf inclusion in the workplace, Teleperformance (TP) in the Philippines and the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde have formalized a partnership through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing, recently.The partnership with the Benilde Deaf School (BDS) marks a pivotal moment in the journey of the first and largest Great Place to Work company towards advancing the organization’s diversity, inclusion, and equity (DE&I) policies, a press release from Teleperformance said Thursday, January 4.The MOA includes a comprehensive program to train Deaf interns and equip t...

Continuing their shared mission to advance the role of women in the tech industry, GCash, the number one finance app in the Philippines, and For The Women Foundation (FTW), recently celebrated the graduation of 31 Filipina scholars who are now equipped to make their mark in fintech.These women from diverse backgrounds recently completed a 14-week Data Science Scholarship Program, allowing them to help shape a more inclusive digital economy, a press release from GCash said.After weeks of stringent and extensive mentorship training programs, these women now bring with them comprehensive knowledge and skills in data science and technology, which will help them pursue a career in the tech industry, it said.As the country’s pioneer in inclusive and open finance, GCash undertook this...

Bernie Llamzon, President of Gogoro Philippines; Horace Luke, Gogoro Founder and CEO; Ernest Cu, Globe Group President and CEO; and Cezar Consing, President and CEO of Ayala Corporation, open the Gogoro Experience Center in Makati City, the first outside Taiwan.*The year 2023 was a time of greater expansion for the Globe Group, as it continued to deliver life-enabling innovations that solve daily pain points of Filipinos.From its network optimization and data center business to its debut in climate tech and fintech expansion overseas, the Globe Group cast an even wider net across industries this year, with unstoppable momentum going into the new year. a press release said.“Despite the challenges we faced, 2023 was another banner year for Globe, as we continued to cement our sta...