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SEVEN-FOOT-THREE Zachary “Kai” Sotto is moving “Down Under” by signing a multi-year deal with the Adelaide 36ers in the National Basketball League (NBL) in August in Australia, his agent Joel Bell said an online news conference organized by Smart on Wednesday. But Sotto guaranteed that he would be available for…
KOBE PARAS has left the lush campus of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman to seek greener pastures, so to speak. East West Private—the agency that has cornered young promising talents with eastern-western roots and has also helped place and push notable National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Stars and Philippine…
EUMIR FELIX MARCIAL hit the beach in Ternate a day after arriving from Los Angeles and shaking off jet lag while under quarantine on Wednesday. Signs that the gold medal prospect at the postponed Tokyo Olympics missed home. “After my quarantine time here, I will fly immediately to Zamboanga to…
More schools within and outside Metro Manila are being eyed by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) as isolation centers for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients who are asymptomatic. “Right now, we’re tapping more than 10 schools, we’re also trying to negotiate with schools outside Manila - Bulacan
People donating money to the organizer of the Manginhawa community pantry should ask for an accounting of the funds given her alleged links to the communist rebel group, according to a Palace official.
The Quezon City government has started retrofitting infrastructure in the city to convert them into isolation facilities that can accommodate an additional 1,000 patients with COVID-19.
To prevent the spread of COVID-19 in households, more isolation wards for the asymptomatic and individuals with mild symptoms will be established at campuses of the Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University and the University of the Philippines, the Philippine Red Cross said yesterday.
"Government and academic institutions are under this delusion that remote learning makes education accessible," Seth, a Development Communication student at UP Los Baños, said.
Three universities in Metro Manila have been tapped by the Philippine Red Cross for use of their campuses for additional isolation facilities, as the country continues to battle the surge in COVID-19 infections.
THE Philippine Red Cross (PRC) tapped three universities in Metro Manila for their facilities to be used as additional isolation wards amid the surge in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. Sen. Richard Gordon, concurrent PRC chairman, said in a statement that they have sought the help of Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU), University of the […]
In 2017, Noralyn Mustafa told the poet and former University of the Philippines (UP) Mindanao Chancellor Ricky de Ungria that she was not yet going to die.
When the entire K-9 unit assigned to the North and South Harbor in Manila fell ill one after another in 2003, officials of the Philippine Coast Guard had scrambled to find an answer as to what caused the disease that affected their operational capability in two of the country's busiest ports.
'The students and professors, our primary stakeholders, are not mentally and practically ready to start the new semester,' says the PUP College of Accountancy and Finance Student Council
DURING my college days in the late 1960s, I remember that there were so many Thais studying in Philippine universities and colleges that the Royal Thai Embassy in Manila had to create a student department with a separate location in Taft Avenue, Pasay City, away from its embassy chancery in Makati. That is no longer […]
'In my 25 years of teaching in the University, I can say that indoctrination is alien to UP's culture. When students do not like their teachers or subjects, either the students drop from classes, or they become recalcitrant and resist the ideas of their teachers.'
An administrative assistant at the University of the Philippines Diliman Asian Center was arrested on campus on Sunday night while the abrogated accord that prohibits military and police presence inside UP campuses was still being reviewed.
As a way of establishing a tradition that celebrates the organization’s milestones since 1994, UP Dancesport Society (UPDSS), the official ballroom dancing organization in the University of the Philippines Diliman, kick-started its pioneer anniversary event last February 14 with the theme: “TRANSCEND: Breaking the virtual barrier, dancing through the distance”. The first activity in this […]
The University of the Philippines Diliman student council called on Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to restore the agreement that keeps out the military from its campuses without prior notice.
The highest policy-making body of UP says that the government should 'take concrete steps to hold accountable those who have red-tagged members of the community'
The University of the Philippines-Diliman University Council is urging Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to "immediately" restore the agreement prohibiting state security forces from entering UP campuses.
The University of the Philippines-Diliman University Council has asked Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to immediately restore the abrogated accord that prohibits any military and police presence inside UP campuses without prior notice.
The University of the Philippines (University of the Philippines) Diliman council on Thursday, Feb. 11, appealed for the restoration of the 1989 UP-Department of National Defense (DND) Agreement and a stop to the government’s campaign to "red-tag" members of the UP community. University of the Ph
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of National Defense (DND) said it will mull over the suspension on the termination of its accord with the University of the Philippines (UP), an official of UP said Friday. Dr. Elena Pernia, vice president for public affairs of UP Diliman, said they asked Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to suspend […]
'The real lessons of the events for students and workers today can only be drawn through a critical examination of the political forces involved, particularly the CPP'
The University of the Philippines Diliman's (UPD) Academic Oval in Quezon City, a popular dating place among couples, will remain closed to the public until Feb. 14, 2021, the school administration announced on Thursday.
University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo has emphasized the university's role in producing leaders in different fields such as engineering, arts, medicine, science and technology, and education, amid accusations that the university serves as a cradle for communist rebels.
Prominent alumni of the University of the Philippines on Thursday hit threats to academic freedom after the termination of UP's accord with the defense department, as well as the rising cases of red-tagging hurled against students and activists.
Some provisions in the University of the Philippines’ accord with the Department of National Defense (DND) were left unimplemented, UP - Diliman Vice President for Public Affairs Elena Pernia said Friday.
The Department of Interior and Local Government does not intend for now to abrogate its 1992 security agreement with the University of the Philippines, which prohibits police to operate on campus grounds without prior notice.
The Philippines' leading state university commemorates the golden anniversary of the Diliman Commune, the historical barricades in UP Diliman circa 1971, that was a symbol of resistance against political dictatorship and has made the university free from abusive military and police force
University of the Philippines (UP) students hold a protest at the Quezon Hall in UP Diliman, Quezon City on Monday, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Diliman Commune.
The eight-day uprising on a University of the Philippines’ campus unsuccessfully challenged the authority of soon-to-be dictator Ferdinand Marcos. But its repercussions and legacy can still be felt to this day.
Fifty years ago in February, University of the Philippines students put up barricades as cops forcibly entered the campus. What started as a peaceful solidarity strike with jeepney drivers over an oil price hike soon turned violent.
Visual artist and professor Toym Imao puts the finishing touches on his art installation 'Barikada' on Sunday at the Quezon Hall of the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City.
NOPE, that’s not a quote from the current University of the Philippines Diliman chancellor Fidel (named after the Cuban dictator) Nemenzo, who should stick to his field — mathematics — rather than dabble in political discourse, of which he knows nothing about. His claim that the abrogation of the 1989 UP-Department of National Defense (DND) […]
“Barikada now not only represents a commemoration of the Diliman Commune but becomes an essential visual response to current developments concerning the university and state forces.”
'The letter of abrogation provides no specific instances and no supporting proof of where, when, and how the agreement failed – especially on UP’s part,' the statement reads