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DOST budget hearing: Sen. Joel Villanueva, chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee J, presides over the hybrid hearing on the proposed P23.89 billion budget next year of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Villanueva took note of the agency’s accomplishments, moving up four places in the 2020 Global Innovation Index, ranking 50th from its 54th place last year, among the 131 economies in the world. (Joseph Vidal/ Senate PRIB)