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Experts urge government, LGUs anew to step up efforts to stem effects of climate change

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 26 11:34 PM

MANILA - The COVID-19 pandemic should serve as a lesson for government to rethink its development goals and strategies in order to ensure resilience in various parts of the archipelago to better respond to future health and environmental crises, according to an economist. Read more »

UP alumni falsely accused of being Communists speak up

Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at Feb 26 11:32 PM

UP Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo believes the government’s “demonization” of those expressing dissent or criticism may be foreshadowing the full extent of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Read more »

Pact with DILG still in effect: UP Asian Center denounces worker's arrest

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 24 01:12 PM

The University of the Philippines (UP) Asian Center condemned on Tuesday the arrest of one of its employees in his house on campus in Quezon City, noting that a deal between the university and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) that regulates police entry into UP premises, was still in effect. Read more »

Local artists stress importance of academic freedom in UP, other PH schools

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 17 12:05 PM

Local artists recently gathered for a virtual forum to reiterate the importance of academic freedom not only in the state-run University of the Philippines, but all other educational institutions in the country.  Read more »

Doctor who lost parents to COVID-19 will be among first to be vaccinated

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 11 03:29 PM

The spokesperson of the Philippine General Hospital who lost his parents to the novel coronavirus will be among the first recipients of vaccines against the pathogen.   Read more »

UP, DILG to review 1992 pact on entry of PNP personnel in campuses

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 07 03:04 PM

The University of the Philippines (UP) and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) have agreed to review a 1992 accord regulating the entry of uniformed personnel to campuses of the state university, which the executive department said needs updating. Read more »

UP community idinaan sa concert ang pagdepensa sa academic freedom

Wheng Hidalgo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 07 06:30 PM

UP-DND Accord, 1989 Abueva-Ramos deal, Himigsikan, Defend UP network, UP alumni, UP community, Department of National Defense, University of the Philippines, Tagalog news, TV Patrol, Wheng Hidalgo Read more »

Kampo ng UP, DND nagharap para pag-usapan ang 1989 accord

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 05 09:55 PM

Nag-usap na ang University of the Philippines at Department of Defense.   Read more »

UP, DND begin talks over terminated pact; further discussions set, official says

John Gabriel Agcaoili, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 07:37 PM

The University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense on Thursday had a "very cordial, open and fruitful" discussion in their first direct dialogue on their recently abrogated pact about the entry of government troops in the school's campuses, officials said. Read more »

All universities should have pact regulating campus access of state forces: UP exec

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 04:52 PM

All universities should have an agreement that regulates police or military operations inside their campuses to ensure the protection of academic freedom, an official from the state university said Thursday. Read more »

DILG says 'no intention at present' of scrapping 1992 accord with UP

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 09:47 AM

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. Read more »

Pagbabalik ng UP-DND Accord panawagan sa ika-50 anibersaryo ng Diliman Commune

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 07:27 PM

Ipinanawagan ang pagpapanumbalik ng UP-DND Accord, kasabay ng pag-alala sa ika-50 anibersaryo ng Diliman Commune. Read more »

UP students commemorate the 1971 Diliman Commune

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 02:49 PM

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. Read more »

PUP, Catholic schools reject red tagging

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 01 02:34 PM

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines and a group of Catholic schools have opposed claims that their campuses are serving as recruitment grounds for the New People’s Army. Read more »

Remembering the Diliman Commune

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 01 03:09 PM

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. Read more »

PH military general goes on leave over red-tagging list fiasco

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 29 11:55 PM

A Philippine military general goes on leave following the publication of an erroneous list tagging members of the University of the Philippines alumni as communist rebels. Read more »

Meet the artist slash activist behind UP’s much talked about barricade

RHIA GRANA
Updated as of Jan 29 02:57 PM

“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.”   Read more »

AFP general linked to Red-tagging of UP alumni goes on leave

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 29 09:04 AM

Major General Benedict Arevalo, the deputy chief of staff for civil-military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, is taking a leave of absence after his staff published an erroneous list that tagged alumni of the University of the Philippines as members of the New People’s Army (NPA). Read more »

The military’s obsession with UP: Some historical notes

Miguel Paolo P. Reyes, Joel F. Ariate, and Larah Vinda Del Mundo, VERA Files
Updated as of Jan 29 05:56 AM

The military’s boldness in making their presence known and felt in UP was rooted in a more extensive operation that had the full blessing and participation of Malacañang. Read more »

PH military intelligence chief sacked over 'erroneous' list of alleged rebels

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 10:57 PM

The Philippine military intelligence chief is fired from his post days after his office published a list that erroneously tagged alumni of the University of the Philippines as alleged communist rebels. Read more »