Senator Edgardo J. Angara called for a renewed push to make the Philippines more competitive by developing a strategy for the science and technology sector to improve the capacity for innovation and spur job creation in the country.
It has been over a month since the launch of the Philippine Development Foundation USA[1] (PhilDev USA) and President Noynoy Aquino’s much awaited audience with Filipinos, Filipino-Americans, and others bearing love and bullish optimism for the Philippines.
The Cebu Business Incubator for I.T. (CeBuinIT), a Technology Business Incubator (TBI) project of the University of the Philippines-Cebu in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology, is pleased to announce the initial launch of its Pre-Incubation Program.
MANILA, Philippines—A senator has called for a review of government’s various scholarship programs through the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as he proposed the creation of a separate department that would handle it.
Last of Two Series
As an addendum to her BGN profile, Erika Legara tells of her experience in Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School. She also reveals her artistic and adventurous side outside the physics laboratory, her knack in stock market trading, and most interesting of all, an analogy of her passion to serve the country using “Despicable Me’s” villain, Vector.
Nagoya, Japan, 11 October 2010. Today starts the Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol is an important instrument, because it can help international sharing of the benefits of modern biotechnology, to which Parties have agreed in article 19 of the Convention on Biodiversity. This same article is the legal basis of the Cartagena Protocol.
A typhoon-resistant “bahay kubo”?
A group of senior engineering students of the University of the Philippines Diliman has designed a nipa hut that promises to withstand typhoons and earthquakes, thanks to its octagonal design anchored on a central pole.
State Colleges and Universities (SUC) should think of ways to raise funds to fill in the gaps left by the cuts on their budget, Senator Edgardo Angara said on Monday.
A senior economist of the International Labor Organization (ILO) is urging the Aquino administration to study the benefits of exporting labor to other countries since an overreliance on migrants' remittances could lead to a weakening of institutions and hampering of market efficiency.
The Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce of Texas has organized the first trade, tourism, and humanitarian mission to the Philippines under the new administration on October 11 to 16, 2010.
