Apayao Just Launched an Electric Mobility System Built by Filipino Scientists. MOVE Apayao Is the Cordillera's First Step Toward Smart, Clean Transport.
DOST-CAR formally launched the MOVE Apayao Project and its CHaRM-enabled charging station facility at Apayao State College on May 18, 2026, deploying a locally developed smart mobility system featuring electric jeepneys, a mobile application, and 30-minute fast charging technology developed by UP Diliman scientists, with plans for expansion across the Cordillera region.
MMSU Students Built an AI Joint Detection System, Studied Inabel's Survival, and Researched Bamboo as Diabetes Treatment. The University Just Recognized the Best of Them.
May 29, 2026
DTI Region 2 Is Convening Investors, Buyers, and Coconut Farmers for a Two-City Forum This June. Here Is What Is on the Table.
May 28, 2026
MMSU Students Built an AI Joint Detection System, Studied Inabel's Survival, and Researched Bamboo as Diabetes Treatment. The University Just Recognized the Best of Them.
May 29, 2026
Apayao Just Launched an Electric Mobility System Built by Filipino Scientists. MOVE Apayao Is the Cordillera's First Step Toward Smart, Clean Transport.
May 29, 2026
DTI Region 2 Is Convening Investors, Buyers, and Coconut Farmers for a Two-City Forum This June. Here Is What Is on the Table.
May 28, 2026
DOST Has a Technology That Turns Agricultural Waste Into Charcoal. Enterprises in Northern Luzon Can Adopt It Now.
May 27, 2026
Baguio Used to Be on the Global Startup Map. It Is Not Anymore. That Should Bother Us More Than It Does.
May 27, 2026
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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DOST Has a Technology That Turns Agricultural Waste Into Charcoal. Enterprises in Northern Luzon Can Adopt It Now.
The DOST Forest Products Research and Development Institute has developed a Charcoal Briquetting Technology that converts agro-forest waste including coconut shells, coffee husks, and sawdust into high-quality charcoal briquettes, a nearly smokeless, longer-burning, and carbon-neutral alternative to LPG, gas, and conventional charcoal. DOST Ilocos Region is actively inviting enterprises to adopt the technology.
Baguio Used to Be on the Global Startup Map. It Is Not Anymore. That Should Bother Us More Than It Does.
In 2021, Baguio City entered the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Index at 944th globally. By 2022, it had dropped off. The 2026 index just added two more Philippine cities, bringing the country's total to ten ranked cities. Baguio is still not one of them. That gap is not a data problem. It is a signal worth taking seriously.
Kalinga Is Getting a Rice Processing System and a Food Hub with Cold Storage. The DA Secretary Made the Commitment in Person.
DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. committed during a May 22, 2026 visit to Kalinga to build a Rice Processing System 3 and a food hub with cold storage facilities on a 50-hectare property in Rizal, Kalinga, with the rice processing system targeted to begin construction this year and the food hub aimed for completion by 2028.
Three Ifugao Enterprises Are Getting Technology Upgrades Through DOST. A Hollow Block Maker, a Food Processor, and a Cacao Producer Are Next in Line.
DOST Ifugao is extending SETUP assistance to three local enterprises in the province: JAXS Hollowblock Manufacturing, Processed Food Manufacturing, and Love Nature Farm Products Manufacturing, covering equipment acquisition, production capacity expansion, and technology upgrades designed to improve quality and grow market reach.
Over 20 Firms Want In on the Luzon Economic Corridor's AI Hub. The Philippines Just Became the First Country in Southeast Asia to Host a Pax Silica Site.
At least 20 firms, including over a dozen US companies and several Middle East-based investors, have expressed interest in the first AI-native industrial acceleration hub under Pax Silica, to be located within a 4,000-acre industrial zone in New Clark City as part of the Luzon Economic Corridor.
Philippine Startups Contribute 3% of GDP and 200,000 Jobs. Investors Are Now Asking a Different Question.
The Philippine startup ecosystem is in what investors are calling a "healthy reset," with capital deployment at a six-year low but discipline at an all-time high. Startups now contribute 3% of nominal GDP and over 200,000 jobs, and the investors backing the next wave are looking for sustainability over speed.
She Built SPC Juice to Help Her Cousin. Her Cousin Did Not Live to See How Far It Has Come.
The founder of Vidad Food Processing, Darizel C. Vidad of Brgy. Binacag, Banna, Ilocos Norte, developed a sweet potato with calamansi juice from a college feasibility study, transforming it from a product with a 2-day shelf life to one with a 2-month shelf life at room temperature and up to 5 months when refrigerated, into an FDA-eLTO-approved food enterprise, and representing Region 1 at the National Young Farmers Challenge Season 5 in April 2026. The people who inspired her most did not make it to that stage, but she kept going anyway.
May 18, 2026
Destined to Hustle, Designed to Deliver. How Disenyo Digitals Is Closing the Creative Gap in Northern Luzon.
Jennifer Fuentes Castro of Destine Events and Disenyo Digitals started with a single creative gathering during a transition period after working overseas. What grew from it is a creative and digital solutions platform now working with LGUs, training young creatives, and building the kind of regional creative economy that Northern Luzon has always had the talent for but not always the infrastructure to support.
May 12, 2026
For the Millions, Not the Millionaires — How Alam Mo Ba Baguio Is Giving Baguio's Small Businesses the Visibility They Were Never Getting
Josh Inman and co-founder Karen Perez launched Alam Mo Ba Baguio in November 2025 to solve a problem they lived personally — and in six months, the platform has clocked over 60,000 unique visits and advertised more than 1,000 events, activities, and deals from Baguio's small business community.
May 8, 2026
She Went Looking for Cacao and Found Farmers Who Had Already Given Up. Eva Padua Decided That Was Not the End of the Story.
Eva Ritchelle D. Padua started Dulche Chocolates in Baguio City as a chocolate lover who wanted to make healthier bars. She ended up becoming the Cordillera's first bean-to-bar chocolate producer, a DOST grant recipient, a BPI Sinag national winner, and the founder of an enterprise that now exports to five countries — built on a promise she made to farmers she had never planned to meet.
May 4, 2026
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