Five more building owners in Bacolod City are applying for accreditation from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority to declare their respective buildings as Information Technology centers, Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, chairman of the Bacolod IT Team, said.

So far, three buildings in the city, including the Robinsons Metro along Araneta St. and the Bacolod Convention Center, have been declared as IT centers and will be home to call centers.

Seeking accreditation are the St. Francis Center, Lopue's East, Lopue's San Sebastian, De la Rama Center and Doña Ceferina Building I.

Supreme Court upholds
legality of foreign mining project

MANILA -- Australia's Climax Mining has won a major legal challenge which has held up a copper-gold mining project in the Philippines for more than 12 years, court officials said yesterday.

The high court dismissed a suit by a non-government organization seeking to stop Climax-Arimco Mining Corp. and the environment and natural resources department from proceeding with the Didipio project, according to the court ruling released to the press yesterday. The NGO, called the Didipio-Earth Savers' Multi-Purpose Association Inc. had asked the court to compel the government to repeal the 1995 Mining Act and declare the department's financial and technical assistance agreement with Arimco illegal.

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