DESTINATION: ART
This is a town that gave its name to an entire province in the same way that the municipalities of Cavite and Batangas became the names of their respective provinces.
Arsenio “Nick” Lizaso,
CCP president and NCCA chairman
When people learn I am a native of Bulacan, they inevitably ask me about the origin of the name Bulacan. Frankly I am not sure. Some say that the name “Bulakan” is derived from the Tagalog word “
bulak,” which is cotton in English. It is not, however, the same as the cotton that grew in the old American south but “
A future of knowledge
December 16, 2020
Pakistan’s future lies in developing a strong knowledge economy based on excellence in education, science, technology and innovation/entrepreneurship so that we can migrate from the traps of a low value agricultural economy to a strong ‘Knowledge Economy’.
A knowledge economy requires the production of goods and services to be based on knowledge-intensive activities, utilising the remarkable advancements in technical and scientific innovations. We need to develop a highly skilled workforce and introduce policies to utilise this work force towards setting up major industries for the manufacture and export of high technology products. That is the secret of the rapid developments of countries such as Singapore, Korea and China.
(Latvian Public Broadcasting) Latvia s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Andrejs Pildegovičs, has been appointed to act as co-chair of the United Nations Science, Technology and Innovation Forum in 2021, to be held on 4–5 May in New York, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed December 16..
The Ambassador of Indonesia to the UN has been appointed as the other co-chair. The forum ensures the sharing of opinions on science, technology and innovations for the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The appointment of a representative of Latvia to act as a co-chair of the STI Forum can be attributed to Latvia’s commendable performance in contributing to the work of the UN Economic and Social Affairs Council (ECOSOC), as well as in digital matters and the use of technologies for sustainable development, the MFA said.