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The Philippines will soon be sending its biggest Filipino-made satellite to space. Called Mula, or Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment, the newest Earth-observation satellite can capture operational-quality images of approximately 100,000sq km of land area daily. Mula weighs 130kg compared with microsatellites Diwata-1 and Diwata-2, which weighed around 50 kg.

KP Govt Dissolves Advisory Committee On Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has withdrawn its notification for the establishment of an Advisory Committee on Digital Assets, dated 9th February, 2021, owing to lack of progress, mandate and authority. While the committee had successfully held its inaugural meeting to review crypto trends and awareness in the region, “the Advisor to CM on ST&IT resigned and the business of the committee was stalled”, explore...

Gov’t eyes virology body for future pandemics BusinessWorld 9 hrs ago Reporters THE PHILIPPINES is studying a plan to set up a vaccine development center and may assign production to the private sector under a private-public partnership (PPP) deal, according to the Department of Science and Technology (DoST). Officials of the agency had met with their counterparts in the Health and Trade departments to fine-tune the proposal that will be submitted to President Rodrigo R. Duterte this week, ...

Published January 31, 2021, 1:34 PM Seeking to boost the country’s creative textile economy, the Department of Science and Technology (DoST)-Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) has inked a technology business incubation (TBI) agreement and licensing term sheet with Negros-Occidental based Creative Definitions (CD) for the water-repellent finishing technology. (FACEBOOK / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) DoST Secretary Fortunato dela Peña said TBI agreement is focused on the adoption of...

Font Size FREEPIK.COM UNKNOWN to many people, that most desired of luxury fabrics, silk, has been quietly being made in the Philippines. In a video presentation during last week’s TELA Conference 2021 (streamed via Zoom and Facebook Live), the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) under the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), gave updates on the Philippine Silk Road Program, which is an initiative to develop raw silk through local silk farms. Some of the silk producer...

January 28, 2021 | 8:01 pm Font Size Volcanologists, local officials allay fears over Pinatubo earthquakes GOVERNMENT scientists said on Thursday that Mt. Pinatubo remains inactive despite the series of earthquakes recently recorded around the volcano, but at the same time stressed the need for communities to always be on alert for disaster warnings from authorities. “DOST-PHIVOLCS would like to assure the public that Pinatubo Volcano remains at Alert Level 0 and remains in quiescent...

Published January 28, 2021, 5:58 PM Aimed at addressing vaccine hesitancy, three town hall meetings on the conduct of the World Health Organization (WHO) Solidarity Vaccine Trials (SVT) have been scheduled starting tomorrow, January 29, Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Secretary Fortunato dela Peña said Thursday. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The DoST top official said that the Task Group on Vaccine Evaluation and Selection (TG-VES), in cooperation w...

The Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI), the premier textile research and development arm of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), is open to conducting research and forge partnership with weavers and weaving communities towards a robust, inclusive, and sustainable creative texti

A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) has been signed between the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) which outlines their partnership for the conduct of the World Health Organization (WHO) Solidarity Vaccine Trials (SVT) in the country.

A Confidentiality Disclosure Agreement (CDA) has been signed by the Task Group on Vaccine Evaluation and Selection with German company Curevac, Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Secretary Fortunato dela Pena said Friday.