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Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections were held on October 25, 2010, in the Philippines.The electorate elected in nonpartisan elections, the Barangay chairman also known as the Punong Barangay and members of the Sangguniang Barangay (Village council) for voters aged 18 and above.
O Shopping was a Philippine pay television channel owned by ACJ O Shopping Corporation, a joint-venture between Philippine entertainment and media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation and South Korean home shopping company CJ ENM Commerce Division.
The Philippines was proclaimed a Spanish colony in 1565, when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi was appointed Governor General. He selected Manila as the capital in 1571. The islands were very remote, so the Spanish Royal Family commissioned the Philippine government administration to the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City for over two and half centuries.
The SuperCat Fast Ferry Corporation, commonly known as SuperCat, is a shipping company that operates a fleet of high-speed catamarans (HSC) in the Philippines.. In 2019, SuperCat was acquired by the Dennis Uy-led Udenna Group through its Chelsea Logistics & Infrastructure Holdings Corp. from the 2GO Group. [1]
[131] [132] The 1947 final report of the High Commissioner to the Philippines documents massive damage to most coconut mills and sugar mills; inter-island shipping had all been destroyed or removed; concrete highways had been broken up for use on military airports; railways were inoperative; Manila was 80 percent destroyed, Cebu 90 percent, and ...
Independence Day [1] (Filipino: Araw ng Kasarinlán; also known as Araw ng Kalayaan, "Day of Freedom") is a national holiday in the Philippines observed annually on June 12, [2] commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898. [2] Since 1978, it has been the country's National Day.
A bar candidate must meet the following academic qualifications: Holder of a professional degree in law from a recognized law school in the Philippines [6]; Holder of a bachelor's degree with academic credits in certain required subjects from a recognized college or university in the Philippines or abroad.
This led to the division of the Philippines Mission in 1974 into the Philippines Manila and Philippines Cebu City missions. [4] The first stake in the Philippines was created in Manila on 20 May 1973. [1] [7] In September 2017, the number of stakes in the Philippines reached 100, only the fifth nation in the world to reach that milestone. [8]