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Scientist group laments slash in DOST Budget, calls for greater state support for local S&T development

We, members of AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People lament the renewed reduction in the budget of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), amid reports of an approved budget of P19.93B for the Department. This amount is P79.85 million lower than DOST’s P20.26 billion budget for 2019, and P25 million less than its submitted budget proposal of P20.18 billion. This is also the second year in a row that the DOST budget has been reduced, from a high of P21.2 billion in 2018.

By agham, 5 yearsSeptember 6, 2019 ago

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Local scientists very capable to do scientific research if given government support

International scientific undertakings should serve Filipino interest first AGHAM – Advocates of Science and Technology for the People denounces Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque’s statement that no Filipinos can do scientific research at the Benham Rise. This statement is an insult to Filipino scientists who have braved the deep oceans despite Read more…

By agham, 7 yearsJanuary 24, 2018 ago

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Martial law an unnecessary evil

AGHAM-Advocates of Science and Technology for the People stands in solidarity with the people of Mindanao in strongly condemning the terroristic acts of the Maute group in Marawi City. We denounce President Duterte’s declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao as we see it as unnecessary and will result to more Read more…

By agham, 8 yearsMay 31, 2017 ago

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Project NOAH provides a vital social service; should be institutionalized

Scientist activist group AGHAM Advocates of Science and Technology for the People called on the government to institutionalize Project NOAH to ensure that the crucial services it delivers will not be terminated, at the same time securing the absorption of all Project NOAH employees after integration. “Programs like Project NOAH Read more…

By agham, 8 yearsFebruary 1, 2017 ago

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Duterte admin must give Co’s kin long awaited Justice, scientist urged

On the sixth anniversary of the killings of famed ethno-botanist Leonard Co and his colleagues, Julius Borromeo and Sofronio Cortez, Co’s family, friends and scientists under the Justice for Leonard Co Movement trooped at the Department of Justice to call for an end to the six years of injustice and Read more…

By agham, 8 yearsNovember 15, 2016 ago

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Jumps in logic, omissions of fact, and twisted statements: DOJ should junk and review its report clearing AFP in Leonard Co’s death

The Justice for Leonard Co Movement calls on Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila de Lima to junk and review the report of the DOJ’s fact-finding team, which inexplicably cleared the 19th Infantry Battallion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the November 15 killing of reknowned ethno-botanist Read more…

By agham, 14 yearsJanuary 22, 2011 ago