Wire communications facilities across the Philippine Islands linked the archipelago by submarine cable. |
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Newly affluent mainlanders are snapping up everything from Philippine pineapples to Japanese sedans. |
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The asylum-seekers arrived in the Philippine capital on Friday night aboard a China Southern Airlines jetliner from Beijing. |
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Other scholars of Philippine culture have also recognized the need to study songs and poetry as repositories of history. |
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The geography of the Philippine archipelago forced the Army and Navy to collaborate on amphibious operations. |
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At the time of Philippine independence, about 25 percent of Filipinos spoke Tagalog, the language of central Luzon. |
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The Philippine government said Friday it is about to sign a new aviation agreement paving the way for resumption of direct commercial flights between Manila and Taipei. |
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The floors were softened by cork tiles, the walls by Philippine mahogany paneling. |
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An anti-piracy conference leading to joint action by Philippine, Malaysian and Indonesian authorities in the troubled waters would also be a sensible step. |
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The USS Arleigh Burke, a destroyer, and USS Philippine Sea, a cruiser, launched a total of 47 Tomahawk missiles. |
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With the completion of the Philippine referendum of 1599, Spain could be said to have established legitimate sovereignty over the Philippines. |
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The small increase of Peninsulares from the Iberian Peninsula threatened the secularization of the Philippine churches. |
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Rizal then returned to the Philippines to organize La Liga Filipina and bring the reform movement to Philippine soil. |
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On January 23, 1899, Aguinaldo established the First Philippine Republic in Malolos. |
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Other major sects includes Jehovah's Witnesses, Protestantism, the Philippine Independent Church, and the Iglesia ni Cristo. |
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The Philippine government also claimed that the heirs of the Sultanate had ceded all their territorial rights to the republic. |
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As a result of these policies the Philippine population increased exponentially. |
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In the 19th century, Philippine ports opened to world trade and shifts started occurring within Filipino society. |
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Criollo dissatisfaction resulted in the 1872 Cavite Mutiny that was a precursor to the Philippine Revolution. |
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During this era, a renaissance in Philippine culture occurred, with the expansion of Philippine cinema and literature. |
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Their presence has decreased in recent years due to successful security provided by the Philippine government. |
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The Galathea Depth in the Philippine Trench is the deepest point in the country and the third deepest in the world. |
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The Benham Plateau to the east in the Philippine Sea is an undersea region active in tectonic subduction. |
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Native mammals include the palm civet cat, the dugong, the cloud rat and the Philippine tarsier associated with Bohol. |
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The Philippine eagle is part of the Accipitridae family and is endemic to the rainforests of Luzon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. |
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Philippine waters also sustain the cultivation of pearls, crabs, and seaweeds. |
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The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company commonly known as PLDT is the leading telecommunications provider. |
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Gerardo Borromeo, Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Office, Philippine Transmarine Carriers, Inc. |
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The history of Philippine horseracing has three divisions according to the breeds of horses used. |
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This was a prelude to filing its IPO listing application with the Philippine Stock Exchange. |
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In 1895 and 1896 the Cuban War of Independence and the Philippine Revolution broke out and eventually the United States became involved. |
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All 20 turbines describes a graceful arc reflecting the shoreline of Bangui Bay, facing the West Philippine Sea. |
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In 2005, when Korean and Philippine vessels started longline fishing along the edges of the Agulhas Bank, seabird bycatch became a huge problem. |
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Members of his expedition became the first Europeans to reach the Philippine archipelago. |
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However, the treaty did not stop the colonization of the Philippine archipelago from New Spain. |
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During most of the colonial period, the Philippine economy depended on the Galleon Trade which was inaugurated in 1565 between Manila. |
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Some Japanese ships visited the Philippines in the 1570s in order to export Japanese silver and import Philippine gold. |
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Philippine mythology has been handed down primarily through the traditional oral folk literature of the Filipino people. |
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Philippine literature comprises works usually written in Filipino, Spanish, or English. |
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Philippine cinema has a long history and is popular domestically, but has faced increasing competition from American, Asian and European films. |
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All films were all in Spanish since Philippine cinema was first introduced during the final years of the Spanish era of the country. |
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The dawn of this era saw a dramatic decline of the mainstream Philippine movie industry. |
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Between 1609 and 1616, 9 galleons and 6 galleys were constructed in Philippine shipyards. |
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Manila is also made up of Six Congressional Districts that represents the city on the Lower House of the Philippine Congress. |
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The First Philippine Republic, based in nearby Bulacan, fought against the Americans for control of the city. |
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The Philippine Capitol was to rise at the Taft Avenue end of the field, facing toward the sea. |
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At the end of the battle, Manila was recaptured by joint American and Philippine troops. |
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The Philippine Ports Authority is the government agency responsible to oversee the operation and management of the ports. |
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A famous landmark in Divisoria is the Tutuban Center, a large shopping mall that is a part of the Philippine National Railways' Main Station. |
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Some universal banks in the Philippines that has its headquarters in the city are the Landbank of the Philippines and Philippine Trust Company. |
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The main terminal of the Philippine National Railways lies within the city. |
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Like many Austronesian languages, the verbs of the Philippine languages follow a complex system of affixes to express subtle changes in meaning. |
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Apart from the inability to pronounce 'f' and 'v' most of the time, in reality, there is no single Philippine English accent. |
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Most regions have a different Philippine language as their first language, but all Filipinos learn Tagalog in school. |
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The church's official name is Iglesia Filipina Independiente, or, in English, the Philippine Independent Church. |
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Congregations are also found throughout the Philippine diaspora in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. |
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In the Senate of the Philippines, Roseller Lim of the Nacionalista Party held out the longest filibuster in Philippine Senate history. |
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Members and officials of the group welcomed the new Philippine culture attache, John Danilo G Jiao Jr, at the session yesterday. |
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The Philippine Senate has every right to assert its oversight function as the ratifier of all bilateral agreements. |
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It is absolutely untrue that there is ongoing back-channeling talk with the Philippine government. |
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Representing the pro-life group in the debate, Pacquiao wore a red barong Tagalog, a formal Philippine attire. |
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Fitch Ratings has upgraded the ratings of Philippine banks Rizal Commercial Banking Corp and Union Bank of the Philippines. |
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The Binibining Pilipinas determines the Philippine representatives to various international beauty pageants. |
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Single mother-of-eight Leonila R Tejano was scheduled to leave Bahrain last night following the intervention of the Philippine Embassy. |
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She said her case officer at the embassy told her that the Philippine Overseas Labor Office should follow up on this matter. |
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The chimaeroid fishes of the Philippine Islands with description of a new species. |
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The chimaeroid fishes of the Philippine Islands, with description of a new species. |
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The squaloid sharks of the Philippine Archipelago, with descriptions of new genera and species. |
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The five-year-old TPS follows the Philippine curriculum and has about 1,800 students. |
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However, Spanish loanwords are still present today in many of the indigenous Philippine languages. |
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They are famed for their iconic performances of Philippine dances such as the tinikling and singkil that both feature clashing bamboo poles. |
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The common use of the English language is an example of the American impact on Philippine society. |
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Philippine music has evolved rapidly due to the different influences stemming from colonialism under other countries. |
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Just like the evolution of Philippine music, dance as well has been in constant change. |
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The Philippine constitution provides for the promotion of Spanish and Arabic on a voluntary and optional basis, although neither are used on as wide a scale as in the past. |
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Though many of the Philippine languages do not have a fully codified grammar, most of them follow the verb aspects that are demonstrated by Filipino or Tagalog. |
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Philippine culture is a combination of Eastern and Western cultures. |
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The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company has been lauded for preserving many of the various traditional folk dances found throughout the Philippines. |
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Despite stubborn resistance by Filipino and US forces, the Philippine Commonwealth was eventually captured in May 1942, forcing its government into exile. |
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Among the early Philippine polities, this arrangement fulfilled the requirements for trade with China, but did not actually translate into political or military control. |
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Beside its membership in the Porvoo Communion, Church of Sweden also has declared full communion with the Philippine Independent Church and the United Methodist Church. |
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Six major Philippine ethnolinguistic groups predominate Luzon. |
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Early Philippine sculpture is characterized by frontal nudity. |
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The Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the first Philippine document written in 900AD, names places in and around Manila Bay as well as Medan in Indonesia. |
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There are dozens of smaller plates, the seven largest of which are the Arabian, Caribbean, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Nazca, Philippine Sea, and Scotia. |
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The 1987 Philippine Constitution says the grounds for impeachment include culpable violation of the Constitution, bribery, graft and corruption, and betrayal of public trust. |
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New York The latest aviation disaster off the coast of Indonesia serves as a reminder to Philippine authorities to be more vigilant on air travel risks. |
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On the 2nd day of the conference, Professor Jose Maria P Balmaceda from Philippine read out paper on, Finite Gelfand pairs in the alternating groups. |
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Traditional Philippine games such as luksung baka, patintero, piko, and tumbang preso are still played primarily as children's games among the youth. |
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Trade with Ming China via Manila served a major source of revenue for the Spanish Empire and as a fundamental source of income for Spanish colonists in the Philippine Islands. |
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The truth is that we were invited by the Philippine government to consider this project, and I personally presented it to Stephen Wynn as an opportunity for Wynn Resorts. |
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New Spain was the New World terminus of the Philippine trade, making the viceroyalty a vital link between Spain's New World empire and its Asian empire. |
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The Spanish Empire comprised the territories in the north overseas 'Septentrion', from North America and the Caribbean, to the Philippine, Mariana and Caroline Islands. |
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The Boso Triple Junction off the coast of Japan is a triple junction where the North American Plate, the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate meets. |
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A newly industrialized country, the Philippine economy has been transitioning from one based upon agriculture to an economy with more emphasis upon services and manufacturing. |
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The Philippine anthem Lupang Hinirang was composed in 1898 as wordless incidental music for the ceremony declaring independence from the Spanish Empire. |
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The Allied Forces then employed a strategy of island hopping towards the Philippine archipelago, in the process, retaking territory conquered by Imperial Japan. |
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Those challengers were fought off despite the hostile forces having encircled the Philippine archipelago in a crescent formed from Japan to Indonesia. |
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Beijing has demanded that Manila remove a rusty, World War II-vintage landing ship it grounded on the shoal in 1999 that serves as an outpost for Philippine troops. |
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Other major publishing companies in the country like The Manila Times, The Philippine Star and Manila Standard Today are headquartered in the Port Area. |
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In Quinapondan, most people have been surviving on coconuts and camote, a Philippine sweet potato that residents have been digging up from their waterlogged fields. |
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The historic Walled City is administered by the Intramuros Administration, while the Manila North Harbor is managed by the Philippine Ports Authority. |
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Manila also hosts important national institutions such as the National Library, National Archives, National Museum and the Philippine General Hospital. |
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These include the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Technological University of the Philippines, Philippine Normal University, and Mindanao State University. |
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Part of the fleet was sent off to the Philippine Islands under Ruy Lopez de Villalobos and two of the ships were sent north under the command of Cabrillo. |
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The consular team was headed by Philippine Ambassador to Papua New Guinea Bienvenido Tejano, and Consular Assistants Rhoderick Bodino and Dionisio Abrenica. |
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