To ensure safety of process and quality of product, addition of flavors and essences, and the core group approach in development of brand, Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) in Quezon, in cooperation with the Department of Trade Industry (DTI) IV-CITEM and DOST-ItDI, kicked off standardization of process and packaging of pure lambanog.

The newest national artist still looks distinguished gentleman. In short, he looks not the master-artist; he dresses tastefully, why, in the grand manner of the boulevardier (a lost species).

He graduated high school from San Beda, earned a law degree from Ateneo, partly to oblige his lawyer-father, but desisted from hurdling the bar. Instead, fired-up he studied art at U.P. without earning a degree. He painted, doggedly, assiduously, turning out canvass after canvass. Unhappy with the rote of academic traditional painting, he painted his own way nevertheless. This seduced him to be bold, an unknown painter showing his wares, for the first time at San Beda College Hall. He showed his artistic prowess in portraits, a better offshoot than his early master Amorsolo. It was 1953. He was 21 years old: the debut of a future master.

Ismael Aviso, a 54 years old Filipino e-car inventor who became eminent because of his self-charging electric car. According to him skyrocketing petroleum prices should spur Filipinos to help each other. He had based his statement because of the continuous fuel hikes. Aviso owns a water-refilling business in Navotas City.

Once more, Bank of the Philippine Islands recognized remarkable Filipinos who have made us proud to be Pinoys.

This year's awardees are Charice Pempengco and neurosurgeon Dr. Manny Cacdac who both exemplify world excellence in their chosen fields.

Charice, being recognized today as an international singer, truly give the country a tremendous recognition as she also named as the first Asian to land in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.

As a prelude to the 70th death anniversary of Jose Abad Santos, a small monument is placed exactly in his death site in Malabang, Lanao del Sur.

According to the new Director-General of Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines), Ricardo R. Blancaflor, the growing number of patents on Filipino inventions certifies assurance against patent infringer and removes our country from the watch list of US. This will be the mission of their agency in the next five year. The office had confiscated about P5.6 billion worth of fake goods last year, and they expect to snitch at least the same amount this year.

Domingo's recognized for his careful investigations on the basic character of schistosome granuloma and its function in hepatosplenic disease and the epidemiology and control of Hepatitis B.

He has been quoted as an example for organizing the Liver Study Group in the University of the Philippines that directed major careful examinations on liver cancer, viral hepatitis, Schistosomiasis japonica and cirrhosis.