Philippine rice institute gets funding boost
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After the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004, farmers around the region relied on stockpiles from a Philippine-based rice institute to provide them with rice varieties that could grow in salty soils.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's endowment fund posted investment gains of 22.1 percent in the year ended June 30, the school said yesterday, helping the endowment to grow $1.6 billion to $9.98 billion.
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The US gives initial backing to growing rice modified with human proteins that could produce medicine.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has given a $43 million dollars grant to aid in the development of a genetically engineered form of a Chinese herbal drug that is thought to be effective in curing malaria.
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The government said Tuesday it has earmarked 50 million Singapore dollars (34.5 million US) to fund research on clean energy, such as solar power, over the next five years.
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The Agriculture Department approved for human consumption a type of genetically engineered rice that had contaminated domestic rice supplies last summer.
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The program will try to replicate the success of a Rockefeller program that increased the production of grains like wheat, corn and rice in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new package of grants to fight tuberculosis, bringing to $740 million the amount it has spent or committed so far on the disease.
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The head of one of the world's largest funders of biomedical research is has said that he's set to substantially increase funding.
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The Philippine economy continued to grow robustly in the third quarter despite rising consumer prices, with the gross domestic product expanding by 6.3 per cent from a year ago
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Worldwide research and development spending in the emerging field of nanotechnology should rise about 10 percent this year to $8.6 billion, a research firm said on Monday.
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The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations will spend $150 million (U.S.) over the next five years to help Africa's small farmers boost food production.
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ELECTION spending and increased usage of cellular phones allowed the Philippine economy to grow by 6.2 percent in the April-June quarter despite the government&#39;s fragile fiscal position, official data showed Monday.
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The Senate passed a bill early Friday to increase aid to college students. The bill would give more money to Pell grant recipients, who are among the poorest
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation took its support of AIDS-related research and care to a new level Wednesday, announcing a half-billion-dollar grant to a global fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--The Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library will get nine new computers this year, thanks to a $10,500 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The Philippines needs about 50 billion pesos ($1.01 billion) to rebuild villages and farms destroyed after four typhoons crashed into the country in the past three months, a Cabinet official said on Monday.