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“Local engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and medical practitionersneed to register themselves as ‘ASEAN professionals,’” according to  Teresita Manzala, chairperson of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) in a forum organized by the National Academy of Science and Technology, an advisory body of the Department of Science and Technology, last August 13 at the Traders Hotel.

The ASEAN professionals registration is part of the Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) to keep professionals competitive within and outside the region as theASEAN integration pushes through in 2015.

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For National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Academician Antonio Miguel L. Dans, no amount of health education or counselling can make people change their lifestyles  to preventnon-communicable diseases (NCD) such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, COPD, and dementia.

Instead, Dr. Dans, a cardiologist and University of the Philippines College of Medicine professor, proposes making changes in the environment in order to make a person change his lifestyle and health status.  Environment refers not only to things around people but also to policies that impact their lives.

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Residents in communities with a forecast two- to three-meter (six to 11 feet) height of the storm surge are urged to seek higher ground and take extra precautions as typhoon Glenda lashes out strong rains in the country.

Deparment of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario Montejo urged the public to stay informed and be prepared in the face of the approaching typhoon by using weather bulletin from PAGASA and complementary information from models generated by Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (Project NOAH) and the 3D mapping models from the Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation (Project DREAM).