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Welcome 2014 to the rhythm of one common beat.

The country’s network giants are set to synchronize their timepieces with the official Philippine Standard Time (PhST) in greeting the New Year after consultations with officials from the Department of Science and Technology led by Secretary Mario G. Montejo.

President Benigno Aquino III signed into law Republic Act 10535 or the Philippine Standard Time Act of 2013 requiring all national and local government offices as well as broadcasting organizations to display PhST as provided by the DOST’s Philippine Atmosperic, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA, the country’s official timekeeper.

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Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo is all ears as rehab czar Ping Lacson examines the Tacloban City map showing the damages wrought by Super Typhoon Yolanda. In this meeting, held recently at the University of the Philippines-National Engineering Center, Engr. Louie Favila presented her team’s damage assessment on Tacloban City based on the map generated through the project called Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation-Light Detection and Ranging or DREAM-LiDAR. Said project, a component of DOST’s- Project NOAH or the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, develops flood hazard maps using LiDAR technology, with priority on the 18 major river basins in the country. (Photo by Henry A. de Leon/Text by Framelia V. Anonas, S&T Media Service)

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Forester Arsenio B. Ella, a scientist conferred under the Scientific Career System and based at the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) was chosen as one of the three Outstanding Filipinos (TOFIL) for 2013, a prestigious award co-established by JCI Senate Philippines and Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd.

Forester Ella was awarded under the Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development category.

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Pacol, a wild variety of banana and a close relative of saging na saba, was used to create a disease-free breed of abaca.

In a project dubbed “Production of High Yielding and Virus-resistant Abaca Hybrids”, experts were able to do this by using molecular markers in a biotechnology process called genetic engineering. This collaborative project among agencies such as the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for  Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB), and Department of Agriculture-Biotech