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  • FEU Advocate
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  • January 25, 2026

PH restores Grok access after ban over AI-generated sexual content

After less than a week of restricted access, the Philippine government lifted the ban on Grok, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that was blocked following reports linking the platform to AI-generated sexual content involving minors, prompting regulators to invoke existing child protection and cybercrime laws.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • January 14, 2026

Tams condemn hybrid setup, new enrollment system in campus protest

Far Eastern University (FEU) student activists voiced their frustrations over the University’s modified hybrid learning setup and new enrollment system for the second semester of school year (S.Y.) 2025-2026 during the ‘First Day Fight’ rally in front of Gate 4 last January 12.
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  • January 13, 2026

The devotion that drives Traslacion 2026

Drawing millions of devotees, Filipino Catholics flock to the streets of Manila during Traslacion to witness the return of the sacred image from the Quirino Grandstand to the Quiapo Church as part of the Feast of the Jesus Nazarene every January 9. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • January 04, 2026

From alley to high court: An 8-year-long reckoning for Kian Delos Santos

Eight years after 17-year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos was dragged into a dark alley in Caloocan City and shot dead, the Supreme Court on December 22 affirmed the murder conviction against three police officers, closing one of the most closely followed cases linked to the previous administration's ‘war on drugs’ and marking a rare instance of a drug war killing reaching final judicial resolution.
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  • November 26, 2025

Rest in-Justice: Juan Ponce Enrile’s grim legacy unveiled

After his death at 101 years old, political figure Juan Ponce Enrile is being honored by many, but the positions he held in the past regimes cast a shadow on the nation’s history. In a country where death often means immediate absolution, and at a time when social media is split between glorifying and condemning him, we must ask: who is really deserving of mourning—an enabler of corruption and oppression, or the people who suffered and are still suffering because of his actions and the twisted system he allowed?
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  • November 24, 2025

UAAP studes: ‘No justice until Marcos, Duterte resign’

Reiterating their call for a transparent and accountable government, students from universities under the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) underlined the need for President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte to resign for real systemic change to happen during the National Day of Walkout at Mendiola last November 21.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • November 15, 2025

Faces against corruption, impunity, and dynasties 

Fraudulence, betrayal, and oppression fuel a simmering rage that echoes through the agony and misery of the marginalized sectors. This pattern has spurred movements in countries, including Indonesia, Nepal, and Thailand, where citizens seize the opportunity to hold politicians accountable publicly. Meanwhile, the Philippines faces the same crisis, yet its approach to accountability is from collective stances but is modeled as a mere public stunt. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • November 10, 2025

Tams, youth sectors march vs corruption in ‘Lakbayan’ protest

Far Eastern University (FEU) students, alongside youth from other universities and progressive organizations, mobilized during the ‘Lakbayan ng Mamamayan’ protest to confront corruption rooted in both academic and government systems while calling for accountability and justice at Liwasang Bonifacio on November 7.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • October 17, 2025

FEU joins several schools in unified walkout protest

Far Eastern University (FEU), together with various universities from the National Capital Region, took part in the ‘National Youth Day of Action against Corruption’ to condemn the nationwide corruption within the government at Mendiola Street earlier today, October 17.
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  • July 31, 2025

Solidaridad Bookshop for sale: Hopes of preserving a decades-old trove of Filipinos’ stories 

By the end of June, National Artist for Literature F. Sionil José’s family decided to flip the page of a 60-year legacy by putting Solidaridad Bookshop up for sale. With one chapter ending, the José family and the store’s patrons remain hopeful that the bookstore’s story as a cultural trove of Filipiniana literature will continue in the hands of its new owners.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • July 27, 2025

Former FEU-IL Dean questions SC ruling on VP Sara impeachment

Following the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision to bar the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte, former Far Eastern University Institute of Law (FEU-IL) Dean Atty. Melencio ‘Mel’ Sta. Maria criticized the ruling’s grounds in a Facebook post yesterday, July 26.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • July 19, 2025

Ready, Set, Work brings gov't services on Career Fair 2025

As part of Far Eastern University’s (FEU) Career Fair 2025, the Institute of Arts and Sciences (IAS) Student Council (SC) offered free NBI Clearance and PhilHealth registration and IDs as part of their Ready, Set, Work (RSW) initiative at the Arts Building Rooms 208 and 303, last July 16 and 17. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • June 11, 2025

FEU organizations show support in VP Sara impeachment trial

Far Eastern University (FEU) Central Student Organization, FEU Institute of Law (IL) faculty members, and other student-led groups released statements urging to no longer impede the impeachment trial of Vice President (VP) Sara Duterte after the Senate convened yesterday, June 10. 
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  • April 24, 2025

Makabayan cites red-tagging on elex raps vs. NTF-ELCAC head

Makabayan Coalition slammed the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Executive Director Ernesto Torres Jr.’s series of red-tagging and defamatory statements against progressive leaders and candidates by filing an election offense complaint to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) yesterday, April 23.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • April 23, 2025

MMK comeback marks new storytelling era

Various student media took part in a roundtable discussion with host Charo Santos-Concio,  celebrating the comeback of the hit TV series ‘Maalaala Mo Kaya’ (MMK), which features a new beginning of storytelling, at the Dean & DeLuca, Diliman, Quezon City, last April 12. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • April 02, 2025

Women workers heighten demands for Menstrual Leave Act passage

Amid societal expectations for women to work through the pain, women’s rights advocates intensify their calls to pass the legislation of House Bill (H.B.) No. 7758 or the ‘Menstrual Leave Act,’ seeking to support women’s reproductive health without financial repercussions. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • March 31, 2025

Masungi conservation at risk as DENR cancels agreement

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) cancelled its 2002 Supplemental Joint Venture Agreement (SJVA) with Masungi developer Blue Star Construction & Development Corporation, putting the conservation efforts in the sanctuary at risk of losing protection in the area.
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  • March 29, 2025

Human rights groups decry enforced abduction pattern on Lumad activists arrests

Following the results of their fact-finding mission, human rights groups KARAPATAN and Kalipunan ng Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KATRIBU) underlined the military’s intent to paint Lumad leader Michelle Campos and her three companions as ‘rebel returnees,’ intensifying enforced abduction cases in the country during a press conference last March 24.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • March 16, 2025

Student councils call on CHED to junk ‘excessive financial burden,’ TOFI

Various student councils from private higher educational institutions (PHEI) submitted a position paper to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), urging the implementation of a moratorium on tuition and other fees increase (TOFI) and junk ‘redundant, dubious, and exorbitant’ school fees for S.Y. 2025-2026 last March 10. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • March 09, 2025

2 Lumad leaders reported missing

Human rights groups KARAPATAN and Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas reported that military forces arrested Lumad leaders Genasque Enriquez and Michelle Campos, whose whereabouts remain unknown as of writing.
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  • March 03, 2025

FEU studes bid early class suspension amid 3-day high heat forecast

In light of the three-day heat index forecast by the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO), Far Eastern University (FEU) students urged the University admin and Manila Local Government Unit (LGU) to suspend classes early, highlighting the ‘inconvenient’ late announcement today, March 3.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • February 24, 2025

Several campus pubs unite to denounce press freedom violations

With recent attacks on the campus press documented in the first quarter of 2025, College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) amassed at least 87 signatories from various student publications across the country in unison to call for the end of campus press repression released today, February 25.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • February 07, 2025

SC urged to reject P89.9B PhilHealth fund transfer

As oral arguments over the petitions questioning the P89.9-billion PhilHealth fund transfer to the National Treasury commence, various health workers and advocates called on the Supreme Court (SC) to denounce the transfer as ‘unjust’ in a protest action held in front of SC last February 4.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • January 26, 2025

‘The time is now’: LAYAS Duterte Network, inilunsad ng kabataan

Iginiit ng mga progresibong kabataang lider ang kagyat na impeachment ni Bise Presidente Sara Duterte sa pormal na pagbubukas ng Leaders and Advocates of the Youth for the Accountability of Sara (LAYAS) Duterte Network sa Vinzons Hall ng University of the Philippines (UP) noong ika-23 ng Enero.
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  • January 17, 2025

EJK victims’ kin fight for justice in disbarment complaint vs Rody

Families of extrajudicial killing (EJK) victims and human rights advocates remain determined to pursue justice for their slain loved ones by filing a disbarment complaint against former President Rodrigo Duterte for his misconduct as a lawyer and his bloody war on drugs, with the Supreme Court (SC) today, January 17.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • December 23, 2024

Paglaho ng kabuhayan sa mga alaalang tinupok ng apoy

Sa tipikal na isang linggo sunod-sunod na sunog ang naranasan ng mga residente ng Maynila nitong mga nakaraang buwan. Sa bawat pagwang-wang ng mga bumbero, ang isa’y mapapaisip kung saang usok ng lungsod ito papunta. Ngunit, ang kaakibat na epekto ng sunog ay patuloy pa ring dumadagdag sa paghihirap at pinagdaraanan ng mga biktima tuwing mayroong ganitong uri ng sakuna. 
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • December 22, 2024

KARAPATAN: Duterte bids to deflect probes in ethics case against Rep. Castro

Human rights alliance KARAPATAN asserted that the ethical malpractice case filed against Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT-Teachers) Partylist Rep. France Castro is merely the Duterte camp’s attempt to divert public scrutiny from the recent investigation of Vice President Sara Duterte’s gross misappropriation of confidential funds.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • December 04, 2024

Bonifacio Day commemoration turns into raps against activists

Some activists face criminal charges from the Philippine National Police (PNP) after the mobilization in remembrance of Bonifacio Day and Day of the Toiling Masses erupted when anti-riot police barred them from reaching the Mendiola Peace Arch last November 30.
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  • November 27, 2024

Mary Jane Veloso to return in PH custody, charges undropped

After more than 14 years under Indonesian custody and death row, human trafficking victim Mary Jane Veloso will be back home in the Philippines and detained until clemency is given, President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. confirmed last November 20.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • November 11, 2024

Pag-asang mapalaya ang Tacloban 5, nananaig sa gitna ng mabagal na usad ng kaso

Sa loob ng halos limang taong pagkakakulong, patuloy na umiigting ang pag-asang mapalaya at maibasura ang mga kasong isinampa laban kay Frenchie Mae Cumpio, at iba pa nitong kasama na tinaguriang ‘Tacloban 5,’ kasabay ng pagharap niya sa witness stand sa unang pagkakataon sa Leyte Regional Trial Court Branch 45 ng Tacloban City ngayong ika-11 ng Nobyembre.
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  • FEU Advocate
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  • October 22, 2024

Isinampang kaso laban sa Makabayan senators, ipinababasura

Kinondena ng Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (PISTON) at KADAMAY ang isinampang kaso laban sa mga senador sa ilalim ng Makabayan Coalition KADAMAY Secretary-General na si Mimi Doringo at PISTON National President na si Mody Floranda nang makatanggap ng abiso noong nakaraang ika-16 ng Oktubre.
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