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                    [Title] => Asteroid to be named after DOST scholar
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An asteroid will be named after a former scholar of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) who took home a prize in a science competition held in the United States last week.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 25588 [Title] => RP loses top meteorologist to continuing ‘brain drain’ [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 397556 [Title] => PAGASA founding director dies of cancer [Summary] => Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) founding director Dr. Roman Kintanar died of cancer last Sunday.

He was 77.

Kintanar, a physicist, served for 45 years with the weather bureau where he started as a weather and seismological observer. He was the Pagasa director for 35 years.

Kintanar was also the president of the World Meteorological Organization from 1979 to 1987 and a permanent representative of the Philippines to the WMO from 1959 to 1995.
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It has thus asked the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for clearance to hire more weather forecasters in preparation for the typhoon season.

Martin Rellin, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) director, said some of their forecasters are being recruited by a Singapore-based weather agency.
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