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Briefly Hemophilia DAVAO City -- Once a disease associated with European royal families, Hemophilia is also afflicting Filipinos causing distress to families whose members are diagnosed with the blood disease. Maria Dulce Roa, president of the Hemophila Association of Davao (HAD) said that as a mother whose son is diagnosed with severe hemophilia she had given all their resources for the treatment of the disease. These includes buying regular factor concentrates for the kid whose one vial alone would cost P8,000. Apart from factor concentrates, they would also need to have regular infusion of blood because of severe bleeding. Hemophilia or Haemophilia is a rare blood disorder where the blood does not clot normally causing massive bleeding. It is linked to a deficiency in clotting factor, a protein essential for normal blood clotting. Persons with this disease tend to bleed longer during injuries or suffer internal bleeding in the knees, ankles and elbows.
Mining benefits BUTUAN City -- The chairman of the Regional Technical Education and Skills Development Committee (RTESDC) has recently cited benefits of mining to the economic development of Caraga Region. Speaking before the members of the RTESDC during its second regular meeting held recently in one of the local convention centers here, Dulmar Raagas emphasized that the mining industry has contributed to the economic development of the region. Raagas explained that aside from the two percent excise tax that is collected by the government of the gross sales of the mining companies, a five percent royalty tax of the actual market value of the minerals produced within mineral reservation is also remitted to the state’s coffer, he said.
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By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews
THE Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental have reported no casualties so far after storm signal no. 1 was hoisted in these areas as super typhoon “Yolanda” made landfall in the Visayas Friday morning. Misamis Oriental Gov. Yevgeny Emano said they have ordered all residents who took temporary shelters in evacuation centers to go home Friday afternoon after making sure that Yolanda no longer posed a threat to them. “We waited for four more hours to make sure that rivers
and creeks will not pose any danger to the residents. We were told that waters from the mountains usually travel for four hours before it would reach the lowlands,” Emano said. A total of 7,886 families or 37,055 persons have taken shelter in evacuation centers starting Thursday afternoon fearful that Yolanda might t rigger f lashf loods a nd landslides. Emano said that when Yolanda made its landfall in Samar and Leyte Friday morning, they were “very concerned” that flash floods yolanda/PAGE 19
NOT THE BEST OPTION. Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST) Dr. Ricardo E. Rotoras, D. Eng’g., head of Institute of Power Sector Economics, explains to COCI members during a Nov. 9 meeting the illegality of the Interim Mindanao Electricity Market (IMEM). photo courtesy of norman reponte
Talks with mining investors give hope to tribal group By JEANEVIVE D. ABANGAN, Contributor
NA BU N T U R A N , Compostela Valley -- The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Compostela Valley Provincial office has reached its fourth round of engagements with i nve s tor s w it h m i n i ng i nt e r e s t s i n a n c e s t r a l domains.
NCIP Provincial Officer Shirley Iguianon revealed that 130 investors attended the 4th Ancestral Domain Investors Conference she organized and conducted last week at the Social Hall of the Provincial Capitol during which NCIP discussed hope/PAGE 19
DAMAGED. A fisherman makes some repairs on his fishing boat as soon as the weather clears in Balingoan town in Misamis Oriental on Nov. 8, the day super typhoon “Yolanda” made landfall in the Visayas region and affected parts of northern and eastern Mindanao. mindanews photo by froilan gallardo
Coalition says power market not a solution MCPC claims interim power trading is illegal
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By MIKE BAÑOS, Editor-at-Large
COALITION of consumer groups in Mindanao has labelled the Interim Mindanao Electricity Market (IMEM) as illegal, overly expensive and definitely not the best option to address the power shortage in the island. “The establishment in Mindanao of the IMEM, as a competitive market for the supply of electricity, is in violation Republic Act No. 9136 (EPIRA of 2001),” said Rolando J. Lina-ac, MCPC
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core group member. “Paragraph 4 of Section 6 (Generation Sector) of the EPIRA stipulates: “Upon implementation of retail c omp e t it ion a nd op e n access, the prices charged
by a generation company for the supply of electricity shall not be subject to regulation by the Energy Regulation Commission (ERC) except as otherwise provided in this Act,” Lina-ac said M r. L i na-ac f u r t her cited Section 4(e), Rule 5 of the EPIRA Implementing Ru le s a nd Re g u lat ion s (IR R) states t hat “Prior to the implementation of Open Access and Retail Competition, t he prices charged by a Generation coalition/PAGE 19
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