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Children queue for free food from a relief program, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in a slum area in Manila, Philippines. - Reuters MANILA, Jan 22 (Reuters): A tsunami was not expected after an earthquake measured at magnitude 7.0 was detected at sea near the Philippines late on Thursday (Jan 21), the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said.
The quake occurred at a depth of 98.5 km, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) pegged the quake at a magnitude of 7.1 with a depth of about 114 km, after having initially reported magnitudes of 7.2 and 6.8.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Friday 2,178 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases in the South-East Asian country to 509,887.
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In the same breath, the DILG also called “for a review of its own 1992 agreement with UP’’.
The DILG will call for a meeting with UP officials next week for a review of its own 1992 UP-DILG agreement which limits police presence in UP campuses to find out if the agreement is still relevant and serves to uphold public order and safety within UP campuses.
DILG officer-in-charge (OIC) Undersecretary Bernardo Florece maintained that the pact has been rendered “obsolete and no longer attuned to the times.’’
“It was signed way back in 1989, three years after the end of the Marcos dictatorship. The times have changed. The conditions have changed,” Florece said.
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+ January 22, 2021 BARANGAY University of the Philippines (UP) Campus ranks 20th among the barangays in Quezon City in terms of crime incidence in 2020, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said.
In a statement, police said there were 250 drug-related cases, 106 theft, 72 robbery, 36 physical injury, 21 rape, 14 murder, 23 carnapping and two complex crime cases of robbery with homicide in Barangay UP Campus.
Barangay UP Campus is situated inside the sprawling 493-hectare UP Diliman (UPD) campus along with portions of six other barangays
Brigadier General Ildebrandi Usana, PNP spokesperson, said the index crime trend in the barangay dropped significantly in 2020, presumably because of the community quarantine.
2021-01-22 09:06:12 GMT2021-01-22 17:06:12(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
MANILA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Friday 2,178 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 509,887.
The death toll climbed to 10,136 after 20 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said. Meanwhile, 250 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 467,720.
The Philippines, which has a population of about 110 million, has tested over 7 million people since the disease emerged in January last year.
The number of COVID-19 infections in Metro Manila and the outlying provinces south of the capital has leveled off, research fellow Guido David from the University of the Philippines OCTA Research group said on Friday.
SunStar January 22, 2021 THE decision of the Department of National Defense (DND) to unilaterally revoke the 1989 University of the Philippines (UP)-DND Agreement has once again surfaced the still evolving notion of academic freedom. Particularly in the Philippine context, academic freedom may have been defined by the courts but only to a partial extent. In my view, Philippine jurisprudence on the matter has not been fully enriched. This may be due to the fact that Philippine colleges and universities are not as aggressive or adamant in fighting for things that should be very well within their turf.
That many people, including those who are educated, ask how the revocation would affect academic freedom – goes to show the underdeveloped and shallow collective consciousness on the significance of freedom to educational institutions. An example no less is the move of Commission on Higher Education (Ched) Commissioner Prospero De Vera to define the meaning of academic