The Filipino nation bids farewell to its 15th president Benigno “Noynoy” S. Aquino III today, June 26, 2021. His inurnment will be held at the Manila Memorial Park in Paranaque City, where he will be laid to rest with his illustrious parents martyred former senator Benigno Aquino, and former president Corazon Aquino.
Stories extolling Pnoy, as well as other coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response-related developments, are on our update this Saturday morning.
Agriculture Secretary William Dar (right) and India Ambassador to the Philippines Shambhu S. Kumaran inspect a demo unit of India’s most innovative, digitally enabled modular on-farm solar-powered cold storage at the Department of Agriculture (DA) Agriculture Training Institute building on Elliptical Road, Quezon City, on Friday, June 25 2021. According to Dar, the solar-powered unit, the first-ever in the country, will benefit the local farmers because it will not entail any additional cost for power expenses in storing their produce, and the unit could also be easily installed in remote areas where there is no access to electricity. See story below in the Science Corner. (Mark Balmores)
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