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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The UP Asian Center will be hosting a webinar via Google Meet, “Allies and Enemies: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and its Impact on Asia and the Pacific” on 11 April 2022, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (Philippine Standard Time, GMT+8). 

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The UP Asian Center and Japan Foundation Manila held the Fourth Japanese Studies in the Philippines Research Competition on 19 March 2022 via Zoom, from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm.

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In a recent book chapter, “Treat and Threat: Chinese Financing of Duterte's Build! Build! Build! Programs,” Professor Joefe B. Santarita of the UP Asian Center explores the effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on President Rodrigo Duterte’s Build! Build! Build! initiatives.

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Professor Antoinette Raquiza of the UP Asian Center will be speaking at a webinar on “Industrial Policy and Nation-Building” which will be held on 22 March 2022, 9 am to 12 pm via Zoom, Philippine Standard Time. The webinar is free and open to the public. 

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The UP Asian Center will launch—via Zoom—a permanent exhibit titled "Bulwagan ng mga Bayani: Alay, Alaala, at Pagpupugay sa mga Bayani ng Pilipinas" on 21 March 2022, 3 pm.