The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) will hold a “Build Your Own Model Satellite” lecture and competition as part of the celebration of the World Space Week next month. “The Philippine Space Agency is inviting all space enthusiast kids aged 9-10, their parents, and siblings to be a part of...
Photo from Philippine Space Agency The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that the development of the country’s next generation satellite is included in its priority agenda. Dubbed as Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment or MULA, the 130-kilogram low-orbit earth observation...
Citing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic as the reason, President Duterte has extended the life of the Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force up to the last day of his term on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Rj Baculo/ Unsplash) Duterte effected the extension through the signing of Executive Order (EO)...
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has urged the Senate to pass a magna carta for anti-drug personnel as it investigates the case of one of its agent believed to have been abducted. During the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs hearing into the case of missing PDEA...
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) have wrapped up their agricultural and agrarian development cooperation in Mindanao after nine years of implementation. On September 2, a project exit conference was held in General Santos City to celebrate the...
Approved foreign investment pledges increased by nearly half in the second-quarter of the year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Thursday, Sept. 9. psa-logo Based on the PSA data, total foreign investments in the country reached P22.5 billion in April to June 2021, an increase of...
President Duterte’s chief economic manager said the government needs a new approach to rein in coronavirus cases and revive the economy as lockdown orders no longer provide benefits to the country. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), the government's...
The Japan Credit Rating Agency Ltd. (JCR) affirmed the Philippines’ credit rating, but it expects a slow pace economic recovery this year due to the rapidly spreading Delta variant. Japan Credit Rating In a statement, JCR said Monday, Sept. 6, that it maintained the credit rating for the...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) have finally concluded a nine-year project that supported farming communities in most conflict areas in Mindanao that were lacking vital rural infrastructure and capacity-building measures to make their...
Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Koshikawa Kazuhiko on Thursday congratulated the people behind the successful launch of Philippine-made Maya-3 and Maya-4 CubeSats to the International Space Station calling it a “new high” in the Japan-Philippines cooperation. Japanese Ambassador to the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a "deeply troubling" development, the UN atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons program. Close-up of Radiochemical Laboratory complex,...
The United States government has turned over RT-PCR extraction kits equivalent to 3,000 tests to the Philippine Genome Center to help strengthen COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) testing and genomic surveillance capability in the country. In a virtual ceremony on Friday, Aug. 27, U.S. Agency for...
