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Congress to act on
land use code
House
to cooperate with Local Government
department and UP to resolve land use issues
THE House of
Representatives, spearheaded by Speaker
Prospero Nograles, together with the
Department of Interior and Local Government
and the University of the Philippines, have
agreed to join forces to work for the
ultimate enactment of a National Land Use
Code, which will serve as a guide for the
judicious and appropriate utilization of the
country’s land resources.
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UP declared National University

Admin urges community to work hard for
Charter implementation

UP is officially the national
university of the Philippines.
On April 29, 2008, just in time for the UP
Centennial, “The University of the
Philippines Charter of 2008” was enacted
after several years in the legislative mill.
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Fire Code up for upgrade through four Senate
bills
Senate Bill (SB) 1477 by
Francis Joseph G. Escudero, SB 1740 by
Miriam Defensor-Santiago, SB 1954 by Ramon
B. Revilla, Jr. and SB 2196 by Senate
President Manuel B. Villar, Jr. all propose
changes in land use, disaster preparedness,
budget and reengineering of the Bureau of
Fire Protection (BFP).
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Arroyo signs new UP Charter
CEBU CITY -- President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo has signed into law the new
University of the Philippines Charter that
would grant the university additional funds
and strengthen the composition of its Board
of Regents.
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PGMA-signed
‘U.P. Charter 2008’ grants P500-M & greater
autonomy to U.P. system
April 29, 2008 -- The
proposed University of the Philippines
Charter of 2008 -- which President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo had just signed into law
today at the UP Cebu campus in Cebu City --
provides a P500-million ‘centennial gift’ to
the UP System that will defray the cost of
modernizing the country’s state university,
especially its research facilities.
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Gov’t orders immediate stop to land
conversion
MANILA -- Taking a cue from
the experts, Agrarian Reform Secretary
Nasser Pangandaman Tuesday ordered an
immediate stop to the conversion of
agricultural lands to real estate
development in the face of a feared shortage
in the supply of rice.
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Land titles stir tribal communities
In
Barangay Salvacion in
Trento,
Agusan del Sur,
people are now
astir by an outside force that they see as
potentially disastrous to their tightly knit
relationship and to the generous mountains
that surround the place. A lumad leader told
residents that their village is within his
group’s ancestral domain. He showed a
certificate of ancestral domain title (CADT)
approved by the National Commission for the
Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) on July 22, 2003.
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DA-DENR-DILG issue Joint Administrative
Order No. 1
The joint AO,
issued on January 31, 2008, defines and
identifies the areas of cooperation and
collaboration among the Departments of
Agriculture, Environment and Natural
Resources, and Interior and Local Government
in the planning, management and control of
aquaculture development to mitigate impacts
on the environment.
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