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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KP Govt Dissolves Advisory Committee On Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has withdrawn its notification for the establishment of an Advisory Committee on Digital Assets, dated 9th February, 2021, owing to lack of progress, mandate and authority.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”, explored the notification. ALSO READ The notification further explains that the matter of all digital asset...
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, DoST Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña told an online news briefing on Monday. “We studied a numb...
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 the PTRI’s textile finishing technology for CD’s handloom woven products. “Water-repellency f...
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 producers they interviewed have been at it for 20 years. Some of the country’s silk farms, set up with the...