Students from the Institute of Civil Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman won the championship in the Eco-concrete Competition at the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Spring 2019 Convention in Quebec, Canada. The students used locally abundant Diliman tuff as partial replacement to cement and waste glass in making an environmentally friendly concrete (UP.edu).
Around 200 Facebook pages, accounts, and groups operating under a network built by communications strategist Nicanor Gabunada Jr. were taken down for taking part in a “coordinated and unauthentic behavior,” Facebook’s Cybersecurity Policy head said Friday, reports Inquirer.net.
Scientists from the University of the Philippines’ National Institute of Physics (NIP) recently built on the work of US scientists to create an affordable “invisibility cloak” which, though it might not be at Harry-Potter levels just yet, is cheap enough for even high school students to experiment with making things disappear, reports GMA News.
The Trump administration has said it will ban seasonal workers from the Philippines starting this year. It's part of a broader effort to restrict US entry for foreign workers and push employers to hire Americans instead, reports PRI.org.
Candy Gourlay
Filipino writer Candy Gourlay’s newest book, the young adult (YA) novel “Bone Talk,” has been shortlisted for the 2019 Carnegie Medal, considered the most prestigious literary award for children’s and YA books published in the United Kingdom, reports Inquirer.net.
A recent Social Weather Stations survey (SWS) on Wednesday, March 13, revealed that the number of adult Filipinos who use the internet rose to 47 percent last quarter, a six-point increase from 41 percent in September 2018 (Asian Journal).
Eighty-seven percent of Filipinos assessed that they have a “very/fairly happy” life, the lowest in four years, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. However, the SWS said that the “Happiness score” of 87 percent declined by 7 points from the record-high 94 percent in December 2017, (Inquirer.net).
Lawyer Jude Josue Sabio —Contributed Photo
The Philippines’ withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot prevent the tribunal from ordering the arrest and trying President Rodrigo Duterte for the thousands of killings in his brutal war on drugs, according to lawyer Jude Josue Sabio, reports inquirer.net.
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