President and Chief Executive Officer of the Maharlika Investment Corporation Rafael D. Consing Jr. (Photo from Rafael Jose Consing Jr./LinkedIn) President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed Rafael D. Consing Jr. as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC). Mr. Rafael D. Consing Jr. is currently appointed as Executive Director…
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. arrived at the San Francisco International Airport in California at 5:06 p.m. (9:06 a.m. Manila) along with First Lady Atty. Louise Araneta-Marcos and the Philippine delegation for the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting and related activities. President Marcos was warmly welcomed by the government officials of San…
FFCCCII President Dr. Cecilio Pedro and Senator Cynthia Villar both attended the 119th anniversary and induction of new set of officers of Fookien Merchant Benevolent Association on November 9, Thursday at the East Ocean Palace Restaurant. They invited Pres. Cecilio Pedro to be their Keynote Speaker and donated to FFCCCII Student Assistance for Education. Their…
As part of the celebration of the 2023 Regional Science, Technology and Innovation Week sa Amihanang Mindanao, the Department of Science and Technology leads the conduct of S&T in Arts and Creativity Forum on October 13, 2023 at Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City. The event was attended by participants from…
HANDA PILIPINAS. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (center) presses the buzzer during the opening ceremony of the Visayas leg of the 2023 Handa Pilipinas, an annual exposition of innovations in disaster risk reduction and management, at the Summit Hotel in Tacloban City on Wednesday (Nov. 8, 2023). With him are House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand Martin…
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr., together with DOST Sec. Renato U. Solidum Jr. (right, foreground), inspects various technologies and innovations laid out during the Opening Ceremony of the Handa Pilipinas 2023 Visayas Leg on November 8, 2023 at the Summit Hotel in Tacloban City, Leyte. (Screenshot from RTV Malacañang Youtube channel) The Visayas Leg…
Student designers from the Iloilo Science and Technology University, Technological University of the Philippines-Manila, and Fashion Institute of the Philippines emerged as the top three winners of a national streetwear competition during the 2023 National Youth Science, Technology, and Innovation Festival (NYSTIF). Feril Izakiah and Seth Amuel B. Abellano of Iloilo Science and Technology University…
Becoming true to its mission to champion Filipino culture, the P-pop boy group Alamat goes beyond music and is now officially representing Philippine textiles for the country’s textile research institute. The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI) announced that the six-member group is the new TELAmbassadors of the agency during the first…
More than 200 junior to senior high school students from 15 educational institutions in Metro Manila and nearby provinces now have a better understanding and appreciation of how Science Communication and various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can complement each other. These students participated in a forum facilitated by the Department of Science and Technology-Science and…
The Philippines and Timor-Leste agreed on Friday to work together on civilian commercial aviation, social security agreement for professionals, and educational cooperation between their higher learning institutions. In a joint press briefing following a bilateral meeting with Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said that among those agreed were reconvening the policy…
