Television and radio limit broadcasting hours and air only religious programming; newspapers are also on hiatus, while shopping malls and most restaurants are closed to allow employees to return home.
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Filipinos residing in Metro Manila and occasionally those overseas often return to their respective home provinces and towns to observe these holidays with their birth families, much like the practise in Mainland China for traditional holidays.
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In 1521, the Portuguese navigator and explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the service of Spain came across the Philippines while searching for the Spice Islands.
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