With the growing global demand for technology-based industries, Senator Edgardo J. Angara is pushing for a framework and support system to improve policies on the ownership, management and use of intellectual property generated from government-funded research and development projects.

With recent studies showing high malnutrition among Filipino children, Sen. Edgardo Angara is launching his advocacy campaign tagged OMG! (Oh My Gulay!) that encourages a healthy, inexpensive diet of fruits and vegetables. Angara urges the country to eat more vegetables to beat child malnutrition, which he refers to as the society’s silent killer.

In promoting bilateral trade talks with Asian giants, Sen. Edgardo Angara urged universities and government agencies for education and the sciences to increase foreign exchange scholarship programs in Asia. He specifically called for partnerships in the fields of science, mathematics, digital technology and engineering.

At a meeting with experts in the education and culture sectors, along with the DepEd, the CHED and DOST, Angara called for augmented efforts in initiating and maintaining educational exchange ties with South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Senator Edgardo J. Angara has again reminded the government that for Mindanao to attain peace and order, an economic-social progress has to be secured for its people. Angara has been calling for a governing body to oversee regional development in Mindanao to tap its vast human and natural resources and as long-term effect, end the political and feudal conflicts in the region.

Citing the huge potential of the Philippines to become the Asia’s medical tourism hub, Senator Edgardo J. Angara encouraged the health and tourism sectors to take advantage of this rapidly growing trend by investing on technology and by promoting our affordable medical and surgical services abroad.

Senator Edgardo J. Angara pushes for amendments in the Magna Carta for Public School Teacher to provide benefits to teachers, including scholarship grants for their children, health care and pension.