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Article: Business and Society; Why invest in Negros Occidental.(Business News)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- August 7, 2006
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Byline: Bernardo Villegas
Bacolod has long been the sugar capital of the country. Its fate has been closely tied up with the price of sugar in the world market. Filipino politicians were made and unmade by the sugar barons.
Today, this capital of the province of Negros Occidental is slowly regaining the vitality it had during the sugar boom years in the last century. I recently got hold of the commencement address delivered by Mr. Mayo Jose B. Ongsingco, President of Insular Life Assurance Company, to the Graduate School Commencement Exercise of the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City last June 3, 2006. Excerpts from his speech will help investors ...