Tinig ng Plaridel

4 min

Rights groups seek justice for abducted cultural worker, Cavite raid

Posted on 11 March 202214 March 2022
byRenz Palalimpa

Residents of Brgy. Talaba VII in Bacoor, Cavite said raids have been more frequent since Duterte’s term started in 2016 as their area became a target of aggressive development projects. But they say that yesterday’s raid has been “the worst drug raid operation they have seen in their community.”

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3 min

TNP FACT-CHECK: No priest ‘delicensed’ for ‘backing’ Robredo

Posted on 9 March 202220 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

No Roman Catholic priest has been “delicensed” or removed from the priesthood for purportedly supporting presidential candidate Leni Robredo and slamming her rival, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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3 min

SIM registration bill nears passing despite ‘disastrous’ provisions

Posted on 5 March 20221 April 2022
byGabryelle Dumalag

Despite groups flagging potential privacy issues from the SIM Card Registration Act, the bill—dubbed a “cybersecurity disaster in the making”—lapsed into law yesterday, March 4.

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2 min

TNP FACT-CHECK: Montemayor overcounts jobless Filipinos

Posted on 3 March 202220 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

The Philippine Statistics Authority recorded in its December 2021 Labor Force Survey a 6.6% unemployment rate, equivalent to about 3.27 million individuals.

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3 min

UAAP returns after two years. How will it work?

Posted on 27 February 202214 March 2022
byJohn Mark Garcia

The league’s first-ever bubble season will open tournaments for cheerdance, chess, poomsae, 3×3 basketball, men’s beach volleyball, men’s basketball and women’s volleyball.

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3 min

CommRes prof sits as new CMC dean

Posted on 26 February 202226 February 2022
byAnna Sophia Capistrano

As the lone dean nominee, Paragas envisions a “Caring Community of Communicators” in his three-year plan, aiming for a more attentive college towards mental health concerns and remote learning woes.

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3 min

Student journos press UP for funding, legal aid

Posted on 21 February 202221 February 2022
byJason Sigales

Member publications and writing organizations of the UP Solidaridad convened on Feb. 18 and 19 to demand the university for aid, funding and equipment amid heightened red-tagging blows and state-sponsored attacks.

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4 min

Rights groups slam illegal arrest of community doctor

Posted on 19 February 202220 February 2022
byRhenzel Raymond Caling

The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) said that Castro has been barred from seeing lawyers and family members since she was brought to Camp Crame yesterday. The organization also reported that the 53-year old doctor is being denied access to her medications for hypertension and diabetes.

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3 min

Top Fil-Am recruit Zav Lucero a UPMBT ‘game-changer’

Posted on 18 February 202220 February 2022
byJohn Mark Garcia

Hailed as one of college basketball’s most sought-after talents, Filipino-American Zavier “Zav” Lucero is the latest addition to the UP Men’s Basketball Team (MBT) in its forthcoming title bid for a prospective University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 84 tournament.

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6 min

COVID-19 airborne, policies need “urgent refinements” — expert

Posted on 16 February 202216 February 2022
byKyle Angelo Cristy

Disease transmission expert Jose-Luis Jimenez and other scientists worldwide are challenging earlier notions that the COVID-19 virus solely spreads through large droplets or through contaminated surfaces, saying instead that the virus is mainly transmitted through the air.

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6 min

[EDITORIAL] UP, the “boat” is sinking. Don’t pretend it isn’t.

Posted on 15 February 202215 February 2022
byTinig ng Plaridel

UP has seen all the charts and the graphs. It knows, as anyone does, that the community has been treading unstable waters since the start of the pandemic. Everything we’ve done in the past years under remote learning is patching holes.

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4 min

UPD nixes petitions to #MoveTheSem, opts for one week easing

Posted on 9 February 202211 February 2022
byJan Cuyco

The University Student Council, along with members of the UP Diliman community, urged the administration to push back the second semester of A.Y. 2021-2022 to give time for constituents to recover from the previous semester. Still, the campus administration decided to push through with the Feb. 7 opening, opting to suspend deadlines in its first week.