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Philippines–Australia Community Assistance Program

PACAP started in the Philippines in 1986 in the time of major social and political change following the People Power Revolution and Corazon Aquino’s assumption of power.


2013 Bohol earthquake

Canada, through Foreign Minister John Baird, also offered sympathies and stated that his country is ready to help the Philippines.

2013 FIBA Asia Championship Group A

In a game that is colored by the killing of the Philippine Coast Guard to a Taiwanese fisherman at the waters near Batanes, and the subsequent withdrawal of invitation from the 2013 William Jones Cup by Taiwanese to the Philippines, which were defending champions, Chinese Taipei banked on Lu Cheng-ju and Lin Chih-chieh to defeat the Filipinos to win the group.

Alfredo Razon Gonzalez

He is married to Regina Anne Marie Arcenas-Gonzalez, Managing Director of Terry S.A., Inc. (Official distributor of Havaianas, David & Goliath, Pininho, and Dupe in the Philippines).

Alicia Bamboo Ensemble

The Alicia Bamboo Ensemble or the Alicia's Musika Kawayan is a school-based orchestra composed of thirty schoolchildren of the Katipunan Elementary School, in Katipunan, Alicia, Bohol, Philippines.

Alicia Vergel

She married Sampaguita Pictures leading man César Ramirez and had two children who are also celebrities in the Philippines: Ace Vergel (known as "the Bad Boy of the Philippines") and Beverly Vergel who is an actress, acting teacher and currently director of the ABS-CBN Center for Communication Arts, Inc. (more popularly known as WORKSHOPS@ABS-CBN).

Almerigo Grilz

On a direct NBC request Grilz followed the Communist Philippine Guerrilla and the elections that led to the fall of the late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the subsequent election of Corazon Aquino.

Andrea Brillantes

She also made guest appearances in Wansapanataym and Maalaala Mo Kaya, and in the TV 5 series Istorifik Mga Kwentong Fantastik.

Arsenio Laurel

He was among the first champion racers in the early years of organized auto racing in the Philippines, driving his 1954 Studebaker on the oval of the Santa Ana Hippodrome in Manila (when the horses were not running).

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila, Philippines) is a concert pianist, writer and artist, the only child of United States Army General and Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur and grandchild of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur.

Bailen

General Emilio Aguinaldo, Cavite, a town in the Philippines, which was formerly known as Bailen

Bicol

Bikol languages, the languages spoken in the Bicol region in the Philippines

Bubby

Bubby Dacer (1934-2000), publicist in the Philippines who was murdered

Carlo J. Caparas' Bangis

Carlo J. Caparas' Bangis (lit. Ferocity) is Philippine TV’s first higante-serye and another primetime offering aired on Philippines by TV5 and starred by Oyo Boy Sotto, Danita Paner and child actor BJ Go.

Central Mindanao University

Central Mindanao University is a public research university located at the heart of Mindanao Island in the Philippines, specifically at University Town, Musuan, Maramag, Bukidnon.

Channel 23

DWAC-TV, the flagship television station of ABS-CBN Sports+Action channel 23 in Metro Manila, Philippines

Clark Bautista

In the Philippine Collegiate Champions League later that year, Bautista would play a key part in the Tigers run in the tournament as they first won the Metro Manila-Luzon tournament by defeating both the Letran Knights and the Adamson Soaring Falcons to enter into the PCCL Final Four with the Ateneo Blue Eagles, San Beda Red Lions and the Southwestern U Cobras.

Dar Bernardo

Bernardo also appeared on political advertisements by former San Juan City mayor, JV Ejercito who is running for Senator in the Philippines 2013 midterm elections.

Dingdong Avanzado

It was also during the time when he met and married one of the Philippines’ biggest selling female recording artists, Jessa Zaragoza.

Doctor of Medicine

The Dominicans, under the Spanish Government, established the oldest Medical School in the Philippines in 1871, known as the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (at that time was one with the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy, also considered the oldest school of Pharmacy in the Philippines) of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros, Manila.

DZRJ-FM

On October 15, 2010, HP Philippines, a unit of United States-based information technology firm Hewlett-Packard Company, have entered an agreement with RJ 100.3 FM as part of radio commercials.

Eucalypt

Eucalyptus deglupta has naturally spread the furthest from its Eucalyptus genus Australian geographic origins, as the only species known growing naturally in the nearby northern hemisphere, from New Guinea to New Britain, Sulawesi, Seram Island to Mindanao, Philippines.

Fairplay For All Foundation

Players of Payatas FC have been invited to participate in training clinics by the Azkals, the Philippine National Men's Football Team, Global FC of the United Football League, as well as LA Galaxy with international football superstar David Beckham.

Fidel Villarroel

He is also known as the most-prolific saint-maker in the Philippines for his Positio Super Introductione Causae, or historical research, that he made for the beatification and canonization of Lorenzo Ruiz and fifteen other companion-martyrs.

Front Mission 3

The group pursues MIDAS to an OCU base hidden inside Taal Volcano in OCU Philippines, but the OCU uses it against a DHZ-aided rebel force conducting an amphibious landing in Batangas City.

Ikon Asean

Vina Morales and Kjwan, both from the Philippines, won the first title of Ikon Asean for Solo and Group categories, respectively.

Ismail Yunos

He was also part of the Singapore Under-23 team that took part in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games in Philippines and also won a bronze medal for the 2007 edition in Korat, Thailand.

Jay Jaboneta

Born September 13, 1981, in Cotabato City, Mindanao, Philippines, Jaboneta graduated Valedictorian from high school at Notre Dame of Cotabato in 1998.

Jocelyn Oxlade

She was on the cover of the January 2007 FHM Philippines issue with Gwen Garci, and on the cover of the FHM Philippines December 2007 issue with the rest of the Kitty Girls.

Lae Garden and Landscapes

It is located at Bay, Laguna Philippines just under 20 km from South Luzon Expressway.

Lawrence Olson

After the end of the war, Olson worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC between 1948 and 1950, and he served as cultural attaché at the American embassy in Manila, Philippines from 1951 to 1952, before finishing his PhD at Harvard.

Lingayen-Lucena corridor

The Lingayen-Lucena corridor is the part of Luzon in the Philippines, between Lingayen (in Pangasinan) to Lucena, comprising the province of Pangasinan, and the regions of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and CALABARZON, where national elections are claimed to be won.

Loay, Bohol

Upon the decree of King Phillip II, after whom the Philippines was named, they retained the honors and privileges they had before their conversion and subjection to the Spanish crown.

Mindanao State University – Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography

Mindanao State University - Tawi-tawi College of Technology and Oceanography is an autonomous campus of the Mindanao State University system located in Sanga-Sanga, Bongao, in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.

MISG

Military Intelligence and Security Group, the former secret police agency of the Philippines

Miss Philippines Earth 2008

Maria Venus Raj competed at the Binibining Pilipinas 2010 title on March 6, 2010 where she won the Bb. Pilipinas-Universe title, but she was briefly replaced by second runner up Helen Nicolette Henson as the Philippines' representative to the Miss Universe 2010 pageant.

Philippines–Thailand relations

There were also ceramic wares from Sukhothai and Sawankhalok found in Luzon and Visayas region as evidence of early relations.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

In 1628, Admiral Hein, with Witte de With as his flag captain, sailed out to capture a Spanish treasure fleet loaded with silver from their American colonies and the Philippines.

Quirino Avenue

The whole length of the highway that forms part of Circumferential Road 2 was later named in honor of the sixth president of the Philippines, Elpidio Quirino.

Robert L. J. Long

He was a member of an American election observer team sent to the Philippines in 1986 and headed by Senator Richard Lugar to observe the Presidential election contest involving Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres

The Archbishop Leonard Legaspi O.P., who was also the first Filipino Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, and the first Vicar of the Dominican Province of the Philippines.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Calbayog

Samar and Leyte, two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines, which include the islands of Balicuatro, Batac, Biliran, Capul, Daram, Homonhon, Leyte, Manicani, Panaon, Samar and several smaller islands, make up the diocese of Calbayog, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila.

Roosevelt College Quirino

Roosevelt College Quirino is a defunct college founded in 1953 in Quezon City, Philippines.

Roosevelt Station

Roosevelt LRT Station, a station on the Manila Light Rail Transit System in Manila, Philippines

Saint Jerome's Academy

Saint Jerome's Academy, also called SJA, is a private, Roman Catholic parochial school located at the town proper of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

Silliman University College of Business Administration

The Silliman University College of Business Administration is one of the constituent colleges of Silliman University, a private research university found in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.

Silver-banded whiting

The silver-banded whiting is known only from a single island in the Western Central Pacific; Lumbucan Island in Palawan, a province of the Philippines.

Spanish-based creole languages

Chavacano is also spoken in Cavite City and in parts of Ternate, Cavite and Sabah, Malaysia nearest to the Philippines, and even in Brunei and Latin America, because of recent migrations.

Telecommunications in Sri Lanka

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Tonyong Bayawak

Agimat: Ang Mga Alamat ni Ramon Revilla presents Tonyong Bawayak, more popularly known as simply Tonyong Bayawak (lit. Tonyo the Water Monitor Lizard) was the third installment of the Philippine weekly mini-series Agimat: Ang Mga Alamat ni Ramon Revilla ("Amulet: The Legendary Chronicles of Ramon Revilla") aired by ABS-CBN that started on February 27, 2010 and ended on May 29, 2010.

Tupay Loong

In 1984, Loong assisted the United States and the Government of the Philippines in their efforts to free American John Ravinow and friend Helmut Herbst, who were held by bandits in a forested area of Jolo Island.


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