鈥楴o story is worth dying for鈥�

According to Taruc and Apolinario, there were stories that risked their lives. Moreover,  Taruc said it is important for every aspiring journalists/reporters to examine themselves first and must have a reason to what they will do. 鈥淸You] always have to ask yourself: 鈥榃hy am I doing this at the first place? Why am I in this field? Why am I telling the story? Mahalaga ba ito?’鈥�

Apolinario added that reporters must be always cautious and, at the same time, backed with courage. 鈥淣o story is worth dying for,鈥� he said.

Keeping emotions in every reportage

While in the process of gathering data for the story, According to Taruc, the reporter must constantly manage their emotions. 鈥淚f [emotions] get in the way, hindi mo maikukwento nang maayos ng mnararapat ang istorya,鈥� he said.

Apolinario said the emotions can be articulated to the way a story must be told. 鈥淸Dapat] subdued [ang emosyon] para maka-relate ang mga taong nakikinig sa iyo.鈥�

I-Witness documentaries 鈥淚nan鈥� hosted by Taruc, which depicts a day in the life of a child with congenital genu recurvatum o 鈥渂ackward-bending knee鈥� and 鈥淏ody Collector鈥�, hosted by Apolinario which depicts a funeral parlor owner recovering bodies of alleged drug addicts killed in Operation Tokhang in Manila, were also shown.

Educating FB Users Instead of Fighting Fire with Fire

Online content producer Mr. Jules Garcia gave a brief overview of the digital team of GMA Public Affairs. In the time where social media can also be a platform of online trolls, Garcia said one must still be a responsible journalist by addressing the comments without being hostile at the same time. Garcia presented a screenshot from GMA鈥檚 Facebook comment section wherein they replied with hyperlinks or sources without risking a negative tone.

鈥淎t the end of the day we are still journalists,鈥� Garcia said. 鈥淥ur job is to educate them.鈥�

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Director of Office for International Relations and Programs Lilian J. Sison, PhD, said the multi-ethnicity of Iran have a representation in their central government. 鈥淚ran has evolved into a [Theodemocratic country] and is trying to strike a historical balance between secularism and religion.鈥�

Hon. Mohammad Jafarimalak, Cultural Counselor of Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran-Manila, said in his message, 鈥淲e brought ourselves an artist that tried her best to collect those dresses from different tribes, from districts, and from different areas.鈥�

For his part, Cultural Officer Dr. Bahman Samadi said most of the artwork of Iranian women were inspired by different nations and other elements such as life experiences. 鈥淭he artist鈥檚 ingenuity of [Pazashki] is not only manifested in [making] dresses but also in homes and in daily living,鈥� Samadi said. 鈥淚ranian women derive inspiration for their art from nature which they bring home and become part of their living.鈥�

Remnants of Iranian civilization spanning more than 7000 years manifested in Pezeshki鈥檚 dresses. Each dress embodied the elegance and vibrancy of Iranian art through different colors.

Pezeshki is a researcher in the Iranian Art of Traditional sewing and the author of 鈥淪even Standards in Teaching Needle Sewing and Classic Decoration of Today鈥檚 Modern Dresses.鈥� She is also adept with Sormeh sewing, needle sewing, Iranian silk sewing, and the modern methods of sewing with native designs.

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“Preaching today has become very demanding and challenging task, yet it is delightful to see people like you who are […] generous in responding to God’s call but also steadfast in believing that preaching is primarily God’s work,” Fr. Dagohoy said. “He has called us to preach and he is also the one who will call its growth.”

Vade Praedica is a three-day event that ran October 12, 2017 that will feature lectures/fora. Various speakers shared their experiences in their vocation in concurrent sessions on the last day.

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Themed as 屎The Malay World: Connecting the Past to the Present,鈥� 106 papers were presented from delegates coming from ASEAN countries mostly from Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Presented were papers on the following themes:South East Asian Studies, Archeology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Education, Humanities, International Studies, Literature, Sociology, Political Science and other related areas.

Five Literature faculty members delivered their papers which were discourses that combine history with literature, education, culture, and gender studies. Prof. Felicidad G. Pere艌a presented a critical inquiry on the role of the performing arts in the construction and deconstruction of Rizal使s image titled 鈥淛ose Rizal, Pride of Malay Race, Reified in Philippine Performing Arts.水

Asst. Prof. Jeanette P. Grajo presented an analysis of the theoretical and conceptual interconnection among cultural policy, nation, and pedagogy in her research work 鈥淟ocating the Nation in the 21st Century Regional Literature: The Philippine Experience.水

Assoc. Prof. Luciana L. Urquiola, Ph.D., used three dramatic plays of Nick Joaquin as a springboard for the study of androgynous female protagonists in a combined historygender study titled 鈥淒iscoursing the Existentialist Feminism in the Fiction of Nick Joaquin through Character Analysis of
Androgynous Female Protagonist.屎

Similarly, the paper of Ms. Christine Ivy Nogot titled 水Conceptualizing Female Gender Roles in Philippine Culture and History through Literature屎 is a gender study which posits that the identity of female protagonists in literature is
culturally and historically conditioned. Asst. Prof. Ma. Eloisa S.
Perez revisited the past in reconstructing the identity of the central
characters in her research work titled 鈥淐ultural Trauma in South East
Asian Novels: History, Identity, and Testimony.水
The ICHCC-SEA and PHA initiated the inclusion of other
disciplines aside from history, to provide a venue for a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary exchange in the 2017 Malay World
international conference. This allowed intersectional dialogues
among participants who presented their discourses in various
subjects or themes.

Corollary to this, the Philippine Historical Association launched
its PHA Journal 2017 which featured historical and cultural researches
in Southeast Asia. This issue had accepted and published the papers
鈥淛ose Rizal, Pride of Malay Race, Reified in Philippine Performing
Arts水 by Prof. Felicidad G. Pere艌a and 鈥淟ocating the Nation in the
21st Century Regional Literature: The Philippine Experience水 by Asst.
Prof. Jeanette P. Grajo.
The ICHCC-SEA consists of three professional organizations,
namely, Society of Indonesian Historians, Malaysian Historical
Society, and the Philippine Historical Association which collaborated
in hosting this conference as per Memorandum of Understanding
signed in 2015. Plenary speakers included Prof. Emeritus Dr.
Muhammad Haji Salleh of Universiti Sains Malaysia; Nadzan Haron
of the Malaysian Historical Society; Dr. Reynaldo Ileto of Nanyang
Technological University; and Dr. Rommel Curaming of the University
of Brunei Darussalam.

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The event held from October 3 to 5, 2017 at the Technological Institute
of the Philippines was spearheaded by the Department of Science and TechnologyNCR and Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI).

The team presented the JAmp Alert: Rapid DNA amplification for the detection of White Spot Syndrome Virus in shrimps.

The JAmp-WSSV Detection kit is based on loop-mediated isothermal amplification using sequence-specific amplification at one temperature condition. It is simple, cost-effective, and able to yield results
within an hour, making it suitable for on-site
applications. This invention was granted

Patent no. 1-2013-0158 last July 2017, the first patent granted to the university.

Other members of the team are Benedict Maralit, Ph.D. (Phil. Genome Center), Amalea Nicolasora (RITM), Krislyn Grace Importante (UST Graduate School), JalizahJaira Lim (UST Graduate School), Sharlaine
Joi Ann Orense (UST College of Science), Engr. Patrick Ellis Go, Ph.D. (UST Faculty of Engineering) and Dr. Christopher Caipang (Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore). Maralit and Nicolasora were students of Maningas
at the UST Graduate School with whom Manigas started working on the project in 2013.

Maningas is a researcher at the Research Center for the Natural and
Applied Sciences RCNAS and a professor of the Department of Biological Sciencesat the College of Science and the UST Graduate School.

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Having been the Director of the Social and Cultural Division
of the Department of ASEAN Affairs under the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Thailand, Sriphiromya has extensive experience in
multilateral diplomacy. She has also served at the Department of
International Organizations and the Permanent Mission of Thailand
to the United Nations in New York, as well as organized the RIO+20
Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

Learning mobility

Learning mobility, or the free exchange of students andresearchers across member nations, is one of the goals of an integrated ASEAN community.

鈥淭hat means great competitiveness, great productivity, and
continuous growth [for the industries of the region]. For all of you
here, once you graduate, you also have the opportunity to work in all
ASEAN member countries,鈥� said Sriphiromya.

As an important avenue through which students may strengthen
their prospects in finding employment, experiences in learning
mobility prepares the youth to be open to new ideas, to deal with
the unfamiliar, and to acquire professional competencies that are
in-demand in other nations.

鈥淢obility in the context of ASEAN integration is the key to both
regional and economic prosperity and socio-inclusion,鈥� she further
explained, noting that this arrangement among the ten- member
nations is possible through the Mutual Recognition Arrangement
(MRA) in seven priority services sector within the region.

Regional connectivity
As the chair of this year鈥檚 Association of Southeast Asian
Nations, the Philippines declared its commitment to make the
ASEAN community people-centered and people-oriented. The
Minister highlighted that, 鈥淥ne significant approach we can do
to make [the] ASEAN community people-centered is to focus
and facilitate on the flows of trade, investment, and movement of
people within ASEAN through regional connectivity.鈥�
Regional connectivity is the larger context in which mobility
within ASEAN plays a part. 鈥淲hen we talk about mobility, we
are concentrating on the motion of youth and businesses and
people [within the participating countries].鈥� It is therefore through
connectivity that mobility can be realized and put into practice.
However, Sriphiromya was quick to point out that, 鈥渂uilding
ASEAN community [to be such] is the process, not the end-goal
in itself.鈥�

Economic progress and empowerment of people
Collective unified progress is a primary aim of the integration. The Minister thus emphasized that regional integration among the member nations is vital, and that developed nations cannot leave other countries behind as the over-all growth and development of the region would be stunted.

鈥淲e have some countries that are in the stage of least
development, and that鈥檚 why we have to have the growth plan
to help narrow the development gap and bring them to the same
level of development, and then they will be able to contribute to
our [regional] growth together,鈥� said Sriphiromya

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The academic and employer reputation from global surveys, the proportion of international faculty and students, number of inbound and outbound exchanges, and the citations per paper in indexed journals are the main criteria that determine the yearly ranking.

Obtaining an overall score of 37.6, UST was rated highest for its outbound exchanges, or the mobility of its students and faculty abroad, with 83.3 points.

UST is also regarded by QS as the top 2 university in the Philippines for 2018 when it comes to graduate employability, and has been rated four stars by the London-based team since 2015.

Quality Management Office Director Engr. Joehanna K. Ngo clarifies UST鈥檚 accreditations, stating that the University鈥檚 four-star rating from QS shows the strengths of the University or the areas where it excels, while its current 145th place in the Asian University Rankings is the overall point of comparison of UST with other universities within Asia.

When asked what the University could do to improve its ranking in the coming years, QMO Assistant Director Engr. Nestor Ong answered that faculty members and students must focus on producing quality research works while simultaneously not neglecting the other factors such
as the academic and employer reputation of the University.

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He will serve anew from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020. AO Foundation is a non- profit medical organization with a vision of providing excellence in the surgical management of trauma and disorders of the musculoskeletal
system and a mission to foster and expand the network of healthcare professionals in education, research, development and clinical investigation to achieve more effective patient care worldwide.

At present, AO Craniomaxillofacial is the leading medical
organization that provides global education in craniomaxillofacial trauma and reconstruction.

During Roasa鈥檚 first term as chair, AO introduced the Young Professional
Development Program where interested senior trainees from different specialties were given opportunity to attend a principles course in craniomaxillofacial surgery and observe in the AOCMF training centers within the Asia Pacific region. There was an increase of 33% in educational activities within the Asia Pacific Region, a 28% increase in AOCMF AP memberships, a 51% CMF fellowship applications and additional four AOCMF fellowship centers with a total of eight AOCMF fellowship centers within the Asia Pacific region.

Now that he is re-elected, Roasa plans to introduce AOCMF to countries
where contemporary management of craniomaxillofacial trauma and reconstruction would be most beneficial. In coordination with other organizations such as AO Alliance, educational activities in underdeveloped
countries within the Asia Pacific region will become a reality.

Roasa is Associate Professor III at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head &
Neck Surgery of the Facluty of Medicine and Surgery.

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