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TSUNAMI ALERT. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) Director Renato Solidum at the PHIVOLCS headquarters in Quezon City, in suburban of Manila yesterday, points to a map modeling tsunami patterns emanating from the earthquake in Chile. The Philippines was on tsunami alert after a massive 8.8-magnitude quake hit Chile, killing over 300 people and sending giant waves speeding across the Pacific. AFP
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The House of Representatives headed by House Speaker Prospero Nograles has received bad ratings from the business sector across the country according to the integrated report on the “2009 Surveys on Corruption” of the Social Weather Stations released last February 19. |
Late last week, media reported that two people died inside a mining tunnel in T’boli, apparently due to suffocation. Because of the country’s much ballyhooed power insufficiency, brownouts have been occurring all over the place, including makeshift minesites like the one in T’boli. The power interruption was said to have shut off the blower that fans oxygen into the tunnel.
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Ride and Roll
BY MAYA M. PADILLO
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