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By The Financial District
Aug 31, 20202 min read
DAR CITES HYBRID RICE FARMING
Agriculture Secretary William Dar has cited the innovations in rice farming to come up with a “food-secure and resilient nation” as part...
By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20201 min read
COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS BECOME THE CATALYST FOR EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION
Just as corporate businesses are transforming the way they operate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so must higher educational institutions.
By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20202 min read
WIX HELPS BRING FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND REMOTE LEARNING INITIATIVE TO PHILIPPINES
Over 43,000 e-learning sites built and launched in two days on Wix
By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20202 min read
VACCINE VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT
On Wednesday, two Sacramento research groups said they need more volunteers for their ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials.
By The Financial District
Aug 28, 20202 min read
CDC SQUASHES COVID TESTING FOR EXPOSED BUT ASYMPTOMATIC PERSONS
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that people exposed to COVID-19 but not symptomatic may not need...
By The Financial District
Aug 27, 20202 min read
MIT, OXFORD SAVANTS UNVEIL COVID-19 DETECTION DEVICE
A new tool out from researchers at Oxford and MIT provides a traffic-light system for assessing risks during the pandemic so we don't...
By The Financial District
Aug 27, 20202 min read
MOBILE APP ADDRESSES MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS
A pioneer app-based health intervention system was rolled out to provide social services to Filipino migrant workers in Macau, the...
By The Financial District
Aug 26, 20202 min read
CANADIAN BREWER TURNS TOILET WATER INTO BEER
Brewing beer uses a lot of water: from the irrigation needed grow barley and hops to the aqua that ends up in the bottle...
By The Financial District
Aug 26, 20203 min read
DIGITALIZATION TO GOVERN SUBSIDY DISTRIBUTIONS
Digitalization will be the focal point of a planned distibution of subsidy for affected households and workers.
By The Financial District
Aug 25, 20201 min read
SKEPTICISM ZAPS BLOOD PLASMA THERAPY VS COVID-19
A day before Republicans convene to nominate him for a second term, President Donald Trump spent Sunday (Monday, August 24, 2020 in Manila)
By The Financial District
Aug 25, 20202 min read
US FACES LAPTOP SHORTAGE AS SCHOOLS CONDUCT ONLINE CLASSES
Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year’s most crucial back-to-
By The Financial District
Aug 25, 20202 min read
PURDUE TEAM CLAIMS FOOD COLORING DYES CAN BATTLE COVID
A team of researchers from Purdue University in the US believes aerosols of foodcoloring dyes could potentially kill COVID-19 viruses linge
By The Financial District
Aug 24, 20201 min read
CUBA TO BUILD MORE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABS
The Cuban Ministry of Public Health is currently expanding the molecular biology laboratory network with the construction of facilities in M
By The Financial District
Aug 22, 20201 min read
CORONAVIRUS VACCINE TRIAL UNDERWAY AT SACRAMENTO HOSPITAL
A clinical trial for a novel coronavirus vaccine got underway at UC Davis Health in Sacramento on Thursday.
By The Financial District
Aug 22, 20201 min read
SMC CHIEF WANTS CRABS TO PREVENT FLOODING AT PLANNED AIRPORT
San Miguel Corp., the Philippines’ largest company, wants to stop perennial flooding north of Manila where it’s planning to build a P735.6 b
By The Financial District
Aug 21, 20202 min read
DA GETS INPUTS FROM ADVISORY PANEL
Prominent luminaries in the field of agriculture, science, economics, and agribusiness recently convened for their inaugural meeting, usheri
By The Financial District
Aug 21, 20201 min read
US INTEL: WUHAN OFFICIALS AT FAULT
For months, Trump administration officials have been blaming Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party for letting the coronavirus spread.
By The Financial District
Aug 21, 20201 min read
WHO CLAIMS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS NEEDED FOR COVID-19 RESEARCH
A UN-led initiative to speed up the development of COVID-19 vaccines and medications is facing a massive funding gap, according to the World
By The Financial District
Aug 20, 20201 min read
TRUMP FINALIZES OIL DRILLING PLAN FOR ALASKA WILDLIFE REFUGE
The Trump administration on Monday finalized a plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), puttin
By The Financial District
Aug 20, 20201 min read
AMAZON REGION IN BRAZIL STILL BURNING A MONTH AFTER BAN ON FIRES
A month after the ban on burning land, the Brazilian Amazon region is still registering a high number of illegal fires
By The Financial District
Aug 19, 20202 min read
AVIGAN TRIAL ON IN PHILIPPINES
The Philippines started its 90-day clinical trials for Avigan on Monday to study the efficacy of the Japanese anti-flu drug against the dise
By The Financial District
Aug 18, 20204 min read
DICT OPTIMISTIC ON CELL TOWER ROLL-OUTS
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is optimistic of a faster rollout of telecommunications towers as local g
By The Financial District
Aug 18, 20201 min read
54.4°C TEMPERATURE IN CALIFORNIA'S DEATH VALLEY COULD BE NEW RECORD
A desert weather station in the United States has registered what could be the hottest temperature on the Earth's surface in over 90 years.
By The Financial District
Aug 18, 20202 min read
STUDY SAYS CHINA’S SINOPHARM VACCINE TRIGGERS IMMUNE RESPONSE
Researchers from China have published results about the safety and efficacy of a whole-virus vaccine. The vaccine triggers an immune respons
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