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According to Health Secretary Janet Guarin, starting next week, the dengue vaccine will be available in the Philippines. She added that it is only in the Philippines where the three-stage clinical trial for said vaccine was made. Although the vaccine is expensive, the Philippines was able to acquire it with a discount by meeting with the manufacturers during the APEC summit. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]
Taking the Reuse, reduce, recycle in a whole new level! Let’s learn and exchange ideas this January as we celebrate the National Zero Waste Month 2016. Infographics designed by Eliud Barcelona Research by Judy Ann Casamayor
Cuba received a record high number of tourists in 2015, a year after the U.S. President announced to normalize the U.S.-Cuba relations. Over 3.1 million foreign tourists had visited the island country in the first 11 months of the year, 17.6 percent more than the previous year, according to the Cuban National Office of Statistics. The number of visitors, many coming from Canada and the US on cruise ships, had surpassed 3.5 million by the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (January 2) – The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said that 1.3 billion metric tons of food is wasted every year. On a daily basis, a seventh of the world’s population “goes to bed hungry,” while more than 20,000 children under the age of five die from hunger. The March 2015 Social Weather Station survey showed that 11.1 percent or an estimated 2.5 million families experienced moderate hunger while 2.4 percent or 522,000 […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (December 31) – 2016 is charging with all its might, faster than our realizations that we are getting a year older and there will be a lot of things that will surely happen. As humans, we tend to adapt, and to adapt, we need to change. Some of us may have wrote a couple or three resolutions we plan to do next year, having the clichés such as “losing weight”, “be a […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (December 30) – New Year means new beginnings and it’s already approaching that’s why people are preparing the list of their New Year’s Resolution. It is the time when people reflect on their past behavior and make a promise to change. Everybody is hoping to be better for the upcoming year. Some people can make their goals into reality but despite the planning and the list of the things they want to […]
A company announced that it has successfully created a self-drying jacket which was inspired by the movie, “Back to the Future”. Said jacket is classified as wearable tech. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
China on Tuesday launched its most sophisticated observation satellite, Gaofen-4, as part of the country’s high-definition (HD) earth observation project. Gaofen-4 was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwest China province of Sichuan at 00:04 aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket. It was the 222th flight of the Long March rocket series, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND). “The rockets has high reliability, high […]
The Socratea exorrphiza also known as the ‘Walking Tree’ is the only tree that can move and walk around the rainforest floor. These ‘Walking Trees’ can move up to two to three centimeters every day or 20 meters every year. (Eagle News Service)
A community of Indonesian artists is using technology to promote its mural, with hopes that this will attract tech-savvy tourists and boost the local economy. By adopting augmented reality technology, the artist enclave of Dago Pojok has become the latest attraction in Bandung, a city located 140 kilometers from capital Jakarta. Most of the murals in the area are scannable through a smartphone app “Indonesia In Your Hand”, which allows visitors to understand the creation […]
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology is monitoring the activity of Mt. Kanlaon in Negros due to an eruption recorded yesterday which resulted in an intensity 2 earthquake. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz)
Google’s messaging services, Hangouts and Messenger, didn’t get much traction. So it’s trying again. The Wall Street Journal reports Google is building a new mobile messaging service to take on the giants of the industry: Facebook’s WhatsApp and Tencent’s WeChat. Users of Google’s new app will be able to text their buddies or use it to look for answers. The Journal says it’s not known when Google will launch the service or what it’ll be […]
