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AS of 2 a.m. yesterday, a Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated at 1,020 KM Southeast of Mindanao (5.0°N, 136.0°E) embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Northeast Monsoon affecting Northern Luzon. Leyte Provinces and Mindanao will have cloudy skies with light to moderate rainshowers or thunderstorms. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the northeast to north with slight to moderate seas. source: pagasa
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Pagasa warns of flash floods, landslides in Mindanao anew THE Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical S er vices Administration (Pagasa) has spotted a low pressure area (LPA) near Mindanao Wednesday morning. Pagasa weather forecaster Aldczar Aurelio said the LPA has a slim chance to intensify into
a tropical depression but the agency continues to monitor and once it develops into a c yclone, it will be locally named “Auring” the first tropical cyclone to enter the Philippine territory for the year 2013. As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, the LPA was esti-
mated at 790 kilometers east of Mindanao (6.0°N, 134.0°E), said Aurelio. Aurelio said the weather disturbance is expected to bring moderate to heavy rains (2.5 - 10.0 mm/hr) and t hu nd e rstor ms i n Mindanao and the provinces of Samar and Leyte which may trigger flash
floods and landslides. Aurelio advised residents in these areas to t a ke a l l t he ne cess ar y precautionary measures. He said the LPA, since it is staying in the sea, has chance to become tropical cyclone. It will be locally named “Auring”, the first tropical cyclone to enter
TO HELP POWER THE COUNTRY
DOE’s solution: Nuclear power A SENIOR member of an environmental group urged Energy Secretay Carlos Jericho L. Petilla to abandon all plans to use nuclear power as the group reacted with shock at the government agency’s recent proposal to revive the use of nuclear energy to help power the country. “The new proposal of the Department of Energy (DOE) to implement a national nuclear power program in the energy reform agenda is utter madness”, said Anna Abad, Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia. The plan goes against global trends as far as safety is concerned, said the Greenpeace Southeast Asia. Abad said: “Worldwide, the nuclear industry is declining having failed to establish itself as a clean, cheap, safe or reliable energy source.” “Nuclear energy cannot be good for the country as Secretary Petilla claims, because nuclear power is neither safe nor clean,” she said adding, “no amount of technological sophistication or safety culture can prepare any country or its people to the inherent dangers of
The moon appears to be near the sun in this lens reflection of the last full moon of 2012 shot Saturday, December 29, 2012 in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines. Mindanao Examiner photo by Al Jacinto
PNoy’s cheap labor policy First of three parts By MARYA SALAMAT of Bulatlat.com
In 2012, the incomes of the Filipino working population shrunk further compared to rising cost of living, their recorded productivity and, based on news reports, growing company’s revenues. Considering that 2012 precedes an election year, the Aquino government only responded to decade-long calls of organuclear | page 10 nized labor for a significant, nationwide
wage hike with erroneous computations, and policies and pronouncements which labor groups decried as misleading and downright anti-worker. These policies are top billed last year by the labor department’s supposed improvement or adjustment to regionalized wage-setting– the two-tier wage system — and its supposed guard against illegal labor-only contracting. These two form part of what the progressive labor center labor | page 10
the Philippine territory for this year. Au re l i o a d d e d t h at there is also a possibility that the LPA will make l a n d f a l l o n T hu r s d ay morning in the boundary of Agusan Del Sur and Davao Oriental. It will then weaken and may no longer a typhoon.
He said they expect zero to one storm to affect the country this month. “F i s h i n g b o at s an d other small seacrafts are advised not to venture out into the sea while larger sea vessels are aler ted against big waves,” Pagasa said. philippine news agency
Alternative education: bane or boon By PROF. MAE FE ANCHETA-TEMPLA of DavaoToday.com
Writing as an academic who has a special interest in the role of education for social change and development, I consider the year 2012 as a fruitful and challenging stage in the education reform movement. The year 2012 was an attempt to mainstream transformative education among the formal and non-formal community educators in the island of Mindanao. Transformative education stressed the sociopolitical context of the education sector. Foremost in these attempts included the campaign against attacks on alternative schools.
It should be known that more than a hundred community learning centres in the island were inauspiciously viewed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines as part of the social infrastructures of the so-called “enemy of the state,” the Communist Party of the Philippines. Notwithstanding, the state forces are heavily deployed in Mindanao with Davao Region as the primary target of military operations on its anti-insurgency campaign, the infamous Oplan Bayanihan (“Operation Community Action”).
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