Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

News @ UP Asian Center

  • Ambassador Lecture Series | Timor Leste's Path to ASEAN Membership: Opportunities and Challenges
  • UP Asian Center Hosts Former SG Ban Ki-moon and the 2025 Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue
  • UP Asian Center and TriCollege Ph.D. Philippine Studies Program Information Session | A Webinar [for the Second Semester, AY 25-26]

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Professor Antoinette Raquiza of the UP Asian Center discussed the importance of manufacturing in development at a webinar, “Industrial Policy and Nation-Building" held on 22 March 2022 via Zoom. 

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To promote the health of its employees, the UP Asian Center launched on 29 April 2022 its Physical Fitness and Wellness Program. It features Zumba and Karate sessions, which are led every Friday of the month, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Asian Center grounds.

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In her recently published book chapter, “Discourse, Empirics, and Perceptions on Investment and Aid: Reconsidering Chinese and Japanese Relations with the Philippines,” Professor Tina S. Clemente of the UP Asian Center studied the economic relationship of both Japan and China with the Philippines. 

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Ambassador Sta. Romana was Professorial Lecturer at the UP Asian Center in 2015, where he taught Politics and Governance in China.

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Nine presentations on different aspects of Japanese society—delivered during the Fourth Japanese Studies in the Philippines Research Competition on 19 March 2022, 830 am to 2 pm—are now available in the UP Asian Center's YouTube channel.