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Agri-Aqua Technology Business Incubation / MANILA BULLETIN This is part of PCAARRD and partner-agencies’ efforts in strengthening technology commercialization, food security, and agricultural livelihood in the midst of the pandemic. Under the PCAARRD Agri-Aqua Technology Business Incubation (ATBI) Program, three licensing agreements were signed and issued with Fairness Opinion Report. The Isabela State University (ISU) signed two licensing agreements with DV Boer Farm to commercialize Chevon ...

By Dr. Jaime Jimenez In a pandemic, the prevention of a wider spread of a virus and economic recovery are the essentials of the day. Among other things, budgeting during a pandemic needs to focus on three things: response measures, social protection, and economic stimulus. The theme of the 2021 General Appropriations Act (GAA), signed and approved on Dec. 28, 2020, is “Reset, Rebound and Recover: Investing for Resiliency and Sustainability.” With this theme, building health and economic res...

The recent development of vaccines is proof of science's crucial role in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an official of the Department of Science and Technology said.

By J. Albert Gamboa The Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) will hold its first-ever virtual induction of officers and inaugural ceremonies today. Taking over the helm of the country’s foremost finance organization as the 2021 FINEX President is seasoned lawyer Francisco Edralin Lim, former President and CEO of the Philippine Stock Exchange. Fresh from his stint as 2020 President of the Management Association of the Philippines, Mr. Lim brings a new perspective to FINEX,...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “Workshop outputs of the different subcommittees were consolidated and integrated in three documents submitted to the President. These documents were a Memorandum to the President; a Proposed Executive Order adopting a National Position for a Nuclear Energy Program; and a Nuclear Energy Program Inter-Agency Committee (NEP-IAC) Report to the President,” DoST said. NEP-IAC, tasked mainly to study the adoption of a national position on nuclear power, is chaired by ...

Published December 27, 2020, 9:58 AM President Duterte wants the government to form a new task force that will deal with the new COVID-19 variant and it will be comprised of health experts. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte went back to Manila a day after Christmas to meet selected members of his Cabinet along with infectious disease experts. The emergency meeting, held in Malacañang Palace on December 26,2020, was convened to discuss the emerging fast-spreading new variant of Coronavirus (Covid-...

The Cavite State University-National Coffee Research, Development and Extension Center (CvSU-Ncrdec) has concluded its extensive webinar series on coffee, dubbed as Coffee BREAK or Breakthrough on Research and Extension for the Advancement of Knowledge of Stakeholders. “The webinar series aims to bring coffee education in the digital platform which commenced in July 2020 and concluded in December 2020,” Engineer Gerry Castillo, CvSU-Ncrdec director, said. Nine topics were tackled by coffee ...

The Department of Health (DoH) is keeping a close watch on Metro Manila after 12 cities in the capital region recorded an alarming rise in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergiere told a media forum on Wednesday that initially, eight cities posted a reproduction number or R0 (pronounced “R naught”) of more than 1. An R0 of 1 or higher is an indication that the infection rate has increased in the past two weeks. “This is a warning signal for u...

December 14, 2020 | 12:01 am Font Size PHOTO COURTESY OF WILDBIENE + PARTNER RESEARCHERS affiliated with the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) have found that about 82% of honey products sold in the Philippines are actually sugar or corn syrups. Angel T. Bautista VII, a researcher with the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, said nuclear-level analysis indicates that many honey products actually have near-zero honey content. “Eighty-two percent or 62 out of the 76 of hon...

GIK admin shares achievements of projects with govt team Peshawar December 10, 2020 SWABI: Humayun Khan, Provincial Secretary for Science, Technology and IT visited GIK Institute to inspect various projects of his department and review the progress made so far. He was accompanied by Dr Khalid Khan, Director, Directorate of Science and Technology (DoST). They had a meeting with Jehangir Bashar, Rector, GIK Institute, Pro-Rector Administration and Finance and faculty members to discuss various ...