Author: DAVAO TODAY

Davao-based entrepreneurs are eyeing medical transcription as another potential industry to generate much-needed jobs. If only they can surmount the challenge posed by voice-recognition softeware.

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By Germelina A. Lacorte
davaotoday.com

DAVAO CITY — Will medical transcription give hope to the country?s jobless? Yes, according to two entrepreneurs trying to attract students to enroll in a course on medical transcription here.

Defined as a process of typing out on a computer what a doctor dictates to a recorder, medical transcription is considered the second wave of job outsourcing available in the country after the call-center industry, according to officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

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Davao del Norte town scores big with cacao — and dreams of having its own chocolate factory.

SAN? ISIDRO, Davao del Norte — This two-year-old fifth-class municipality wants its cacao industry to make it big in? the local and international markets.

?We dream of having a chocolate factory in San Isidro,?? Mayor Tomas Abelita once said during? the Asaean Tourism Forum held in Davao early this year.

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DAVAO CITY ? The Davao region, at 5.0 percent gross regional domestic product (GRDP) growth, ranked as the second highest growing economy among the regions in Mindanao, next to Zamboanga peninsula with a 7.2 percent GRDP growth.

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