Metals and Engineering Innovation Centers (MEICs) have played a crucial role in boosting the competitive advantage of the metals and engineering industries in various regions by empowering the instructors and other focal personnel from partner universities. Faculty trainees at Gecar Machines...
The Parañaque City government will be constructing a disaster-resilient evacuation center to strengthen its emergency response and recovery efforts in times of emergencies such as strong typhoons, severe flooding, and other disastrous events. Mayor Eric Olivarez disclosed that the multi-million...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu provincial government is pushing through with its plan to build a government center in Balamban. And for Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, the project must start as soon as possible. The national government has allocated P200 million for the construction of the government center...
Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas has filed a House bill (HB) seeking regularization, salary increase, and improved benefits for child development workers (CDWs). Gabriela Women's Party-list Rep. Brosas and representatives of the CDW sector (Makabayan/Gabriela Media) Brosas filed HB...
In the past month alone, Omicron subvariant BA.5 has been the "most predominant" sample sequenced by the Philippine Genome Center (PGC), it said on Monday, Aug. 8. Omicron variant of COVID-19 (MB FILE PHOTO) During the Laging Handa public briefing, PGC Executive Director Dr. Cynthia P. Saloma...
Prestone Philippines, the country’s leading brand in brake fluid and coolant, recently opened the Prestone Car Service Center along MacArthur Highway in San Nicolas, Tarlac. This is in partnership with CJ Fernandez Enterprises. This is Prestone’s first and only car service center to serve the...
BAGUIO CITY – A total of 2,844 individuals belonging to 894 families have remained in various evacuation centers since the magnitude-7 earthquake struck northern Luzon. In a report released by the Department of Health-Cordillera on August 1, out of the total number, 674 families or 2,009...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) announced on Sunday, July 31, that its "bakuna" center in Mandaluyong City is now open for administering Covid-19 second booster shots for 50 to 59-year-olds and adults with comorbidities. (PHILIPPINE RED CROSS) People in the said age bracket and under the A3 category...
Almaciga resin or Manila copal. Photo by Jason Houston from Wikimedia Commons. The resin extracted from a native tree called almaciga ( Agathis philippinensis ) has long been traded by the Philippines under the name of Manila copal. It is used to manufacture varnish, lacquer, and paint....
The Filipino invention can far supersede technologies from foreign counterparts at least in the eyes of GECAR Machine Solutions, Inc. (GECAR), a partner of the Department of Science and Technology – Metals Industry Research and Development Center (DOST-MIRDC). Photo courtesy of DOST-MIRDC Based...
A command center intended to provide prompt response to overseas Filipinos in times of crisis abroad will be established under the Marcos administration. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. announced that a One Repatriation Command...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) opened its 27th "Bakuna" center located in Malabon City on July 20. (PHILIPPINE RED CROSS) According to PRC, this is the first "Bakuna" center in the city. The PRC "Bakuna" Center, in partnership with the Department of Health (DOH), the local government unit of...
