Tagalog-speaking officers from central Luzon could not communicate with troops speaking the Ilocano dialect. |
The marchers from Central Luzon will be joined by thousands of protesters from Manila and Southern Tagalog. |
Methamphetamine is smuggled into the Philippines mainly through the shorelines of the Northern Luzon, Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog regions. |
It is made by the women of an island bearing that name, which is close to Luzon. |
At the time of Philippine independence, about 25 percent of Filipinos spoke Tagalog, the language of central Luzon. |
A typhoon which hit the island of Luzon in July this year killed dozens of people. |