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Some 300,000 small-scale miners in the country stand to benefit from DOST’s cyanide-free mining technology

DAVAO, Philippines -- Afterextensive research and development,the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has come up with an environment friendly process for extracting gold and coppersans the use of toxic chemicals like mercury and cyanide.

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In compliance to RA 10028 or the Expanded Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2009, the Department of Health-National Capital Region awarded the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI), the certification as “Mother-baby Friendly Workplace” early this year. FNRI is the first DOST agency to be awarded with said certification which is valid for two years.

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) officially sealed its partnership with the Land Bank of the Philippines at the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for the OneSTore.ph Project last March 14, 2016 at LANDBANK Head Office, Malate, Manila.

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The Department of Science and Technology's STARBOOKS, or the Science and Technology Academic and Research-based Openly Operated Kiosks, bagged the prestigious 2015 Outstanding Library Program of the Year Award by the Philippine Association of Academic/Research Librarians Inc (PAARLI). Receiving the award for STARBOOKS is (second from left) Nelly B. Agpawa, Arlene E. Centeno and Maribel B. Palafox during the awarding ceremony last January 29 at the PAARLAnnual General Assembly held at the Far Eastern University in Sampaloc, Manila. STARBOOKS, the country's first stand-alone digital library for science and technology, contains hundreds of thousands of S&T materials such as journals, news, theses, dissertations, researches, encyclopedia, plus a number of livelihood videos. Developed by the DOST's Science and Technology Information Institute, STARBOOKS is accessed in 783 sites all over the Philippines including school libraries as of December 2015. #STARBOOKS #dostPH #library #digitallibrary #stii