DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The doctor who survived the attempt on his life has tagged a policeman detained at the Bacong Police Station as the suspect in the shooting incident at around 6 p.m. Wednesday in Purok Apitong, Brgy. Tubtubon, Sibulan, Negros Oriental.

Dr. Wilson Banzon Tan, 57, of Sibulan, sustained three gunshot wounds and is now recuperating at the Holy Child Hospital in Dumaguete City.

Tan told the police he was on his way home with his 12-year-old daughter and has reached the small bridge in Boloc-boloc, Apitong, when he heard somebody outside his vehicle say in vernacular “mao na siya gyud (He is the one.)”

Union election Nov. 29
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The certification election for employees of Vallacar Transit Inc., operator of Ceres buses in the Visayas, and the Bachelors and Rural Transit in Mindanao, will be conducted on Nov. 29.

The election is contested by employees under the Philippine Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Workers Union, and those under the Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines.

More than 2,000 union members from Bacolod, 1,200 in Cebu, 800 plus in Iloilo and around 700 in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, are expected to vote.

Sudoku Challenge
slated in Silliman

A Sudoku competition will be conducted at the Elementary Department of the Silliman University School of Basic Education next month to look for the best participant who will represent Dumaguete City at the 7th Philippine Sudoku Super Challenge, a press release from the school said.

Open to the public, the competition has “Sudoku whiz kid” for elementary students, “Sudoku wizard” for high school students and “Sudoku grandmaster” for college students and professionals.

Interested players should submit cutouts of at least 20 original Sudoku puzzles published in The Philippine Star before December 1, the date of the competition, the press release said.

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