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Manila City officials, disaster risk reduction officers and Manila residents participated in a simulated flood and storm surge drill conducted last July 19 in Baseco, Tondo by PAGASA, an agency under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

Tondo, which is near the mouth of Manila Bay, is vulnerable to storm surges.

 

Wataru Sakuma, a Japanese designer based in the Philippines, is one of the newest adopters of the Department of Science and Technology - Forest Products Research and Development Institute’s (DOST-FPRDI) low-cost handicraft dryer (LCHD).

His company, the Cavite-based Masa Ecological Development, Inc. (Masaeco), is the maker of eco-friendly and world-class handmade paper products made mostly of local agricultural wastes such as pineapple and banana fibers and cogon grass.  Sakuma’s masterpieces are exported to the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.

 

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Mario G. Montejo believes that this year’s celebration of National Science and Technology Week will prove that Filipino scientists can compete not only in Asia but throughout the rest of the world.

“Many of our scientists have carved major inroads in the field of S&T over the last two years, meriting recognition from the international science community,” Montejo said in a press conference last July 10, 2015 at Sulo Riviera Hotel in Quezon City.