Philippines
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History of Mexico...Mexico.) This entity was part of an eponymous viceroyalty, which joined with it the Spanish Caribbean islands, Central America as far south as Costa Rica, the area comprising today's southwestern United States, and the Philippines. Since... In this article: Mexico, Porfirio Diaz, Maximilian I of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, United States, Francisco I. Madero, Venustiano Carranza, and Tenochtitlan |
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The Japan Times: All Stories | October 14, 2009
An angel among the evil energy resources
...that circles the Pacific. They include New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the west coasts of the U.S. and Canada, Central America, and the west coast of South America. The Ring of Fire is a zone...
In this article: Fossil fuel, Coal, Global warming, Uranium, International Energy Agency, United States, Europe, Indonesia, Natural gas, and Exploiting
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PR Newswire: Financial | October 14, 2009
Guillermo de la Vina, CEO Sigue Corporation 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year!
...Sigue Headquartered in Sylmar, California, Sigue is a leading financial services company providing international electronic money transfer services to Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and the Philippines. The company...
In this article: South America, Caribbean, Mexico, California, United States, and Pain and suffering
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The Japan Times: All Stories | October 17, 2009
First diplomat came from Spain
...de Vivero y Velasco (born in Laredo, Spain) was a Spanish officer from The Viceroyalty of New Spain, who was appointed interim governor of the Philippines from June 15, 1608, to April 1609. The Viceroyalty of New Spain included the Spanish...
In this article: Spain, Central America, The Japan Times, Mexico, Laredo, Spain, Caribbean, Mexico City, and California
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Wikipedia | March 31, 2009
Fidelma Macken
...to last a matter of months but continued for over three years. Macken travelled through Australia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, South America, Mexico and Central America. She lived and worked for periods in San Francisco and in Washington...
In this article: Fidelma Macken, King's Inns, University of Dublin, Trinity College, John L. Murray, Supreme Court, EU, and Ireland
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BusinessWeek Online | July 01, 2008
IMAX's Hollywood Card - BusinessWeek
...IMAX equipment for theaters could fall even further. Since the beginning of this year, IMAX has signed deals with theaters in the Philippines, South and Central America, Dubai and Russia. "The biggest problem isn't getting the films," Foster...
In this article: IMAX, Hollywood, Speed Racer, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Tokyo Dome, BusinessWeek, and Japan
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Wikipedia | July 28, 2009
Juan Gutierrez de Padilla
...de Padilla Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (c. 1590 1664) was a composer of New Spain (a viceroyalty of Spain that included modern day Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and other parts of Central America and the Caribbean). He was born in...
In this article: Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, Mexico City, Puebla, The Harp Consort, Andrew Lawrence-King, Spain, Chicago, Illinois, Caribbean, and Central America
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Government 'abandoning' foreign workers: lawyer
...off the tap and are leaving these workers high and dry.a Many temporary foreign workers come from the Philippines, Mexico and Central America, often to work in the service industry. People who work as nannies arrive under a separate...
In this article: Edmonton, Edmonton Journal, Alberta Federation of Labour, and Alberta
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Sydney Morning Herald - Entertainment | October 05, 2009
Origin of the sweeties
...America. Fanny Chan, a chocolatier, and her brother, Alex Chan, a food technologist, of Boon Chocolates in Darlinghurst, point out that their ancestral country, the Philippines, had a chocolate culture as early as 1600. It had cocoa for...
In this article: Chocolate, Cocoa, Sugar, Sydney, Belgium, Ganache, and The Sydney Morning Herald
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Wikipedia | June 18, 2009
Antonio Albanese (chef)
He has gained much national and international experience, and is nicknamed the "flying chef" for his travels around the world to teach Italian cooking, in places such as China, Korea, Central America, the Maldives and the Philippines. He...
In this article: Naples, Korea, Central America, Maldives, and China
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The Philippines (Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), is an island country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippines comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing maritime borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, the Republic of China, the People's Republic of China, and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population of 90 million people. Its national economy is the 46th largest in the world with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of over US$154.073 billion. There are more than 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide, about 11% of the total population of the Philippines. It is a multi-ethnic country. Ecologically, The Philippines is considered to be among 17 of the most megadiverse countries in the world.
The Philippines is one of two predominantly Roman Catholic countries in Asia-Pacific, the other being East Timor. Pre-Hispanic indigenous rituals still exist; and there are also followers of Islam. Spanish was an official language of the Philippines until 1987. Since then, the two official languages are Filipino, and English.
- Name:
- the Philippines
- Conventional Long Name:
- Republic of the Philippines
- Local Name:
- Republika ng Pilipinas
- Capital:
- Manila
- Language:
- Filipino, and English
- Filipino
- Motto:
- "Maka-Diyos, Maka-Tao, Makakalikasan, at Makabansa"
- Largest City:
- Quezon City
- Government type:
- Unitary presidential constitutional republic
- Founding Date:
- February 02, 1987
- Formations:
- Current constitution
- Area:
- 300,000
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $319.773 billion
- Time Zone:
- PHT
- Currency:
- Peso (Filipino: piso )
- Demonym:
- Filipino, Pinoy
- Currency (code):
- PHP
- Country Calling Code:
- 63
- ccTLD:
- .ph
- Anthem:
- "Lupang Hinirang"
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