Sinulog Festival Date of Celebration: 3rd week of January Place of Celebration: Cebu City Description: The Sinulog Festival is distinguished by its unusual two-steps-forward-and-one-step-backward shuffle‚ thus simulating the Holy Child of the shores‚ the Sinulog is a century-old tradition observed in the part of Visayas region. The prayer-dance is harmonized to the beat of drums and shouts of "Pit Señor! Viva Sto. Niño!”. Ati-atihan Festival Date of Celebration: 3rd week of January Place of Celebration:
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THE PHILIPPINE DALLAS If the Americans had Dallas‚ we had many parallels of it as well. Dallas‚ an American prime time television soap opera‚ aired on CBS from April 2‚ 1978 to May 3‚ 1991 on CBS. Anna Liza was produced by GMA Network. Like its American counterpart‚ GMA Network started out as a radio station. Anna Liza was Philippine television series‚ or so to say a teleserye‚ in slangspeak. 1980 was the year it was launched. It ran for 6 years‚ ending with the untimely death of its lead actress
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Taxation in the Philippines From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia. Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text. (May 2013) Taxation An aspect of fiscal policy Policies[show] Government revenue Tax revenue Non-tax revenue Tax law Tax bracket Tax threshold Exemption Credit Deduction Tax shift Tax cut Tax holiday Tax
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Education in the Philippines is managed and regulated by the Department of Education‚ commonly referred to as the DepEd in the country. The Department of Education controls the Philippine education system‚ including the curriculum used in schools and the allocation of funds. It also regulates the construction of schools and other educational facilities and the recruitment of teachers and staff. Before Philippine independence in 1946‚ the country’s education system was patterned on the system of its colonial
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Background Poverty and inequality have been recurrent challenges in the Philippines and have again come to the fore in the wake of the current global financial crisis and rising food‚ fuel‚ and commodity prices experienced in 2008. he proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined very slowly and unevenly in the past four decades‚ and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ Indonesia‚ hailand‚
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The nationalism in the Philippines By Paolo Codilla Laquian In one of the most stunning display of nationalism in the world‚ the revolution known as the “People Power Revolution”‚ a series of popular demonstrations against the Marcos regime began in 1983 and culminated in 1986‚ set a new standard for displaying love of country whose example would be followed by multitudes of people all desiring change in their country. Nationalism is defined by Duhaylugsod (1999) is love of country with the advocacy
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faces. Though the hydroelectric has a lot of advantages‚ for its low cost and low pollution‚ still it has some disadvantages. In some Asian countries‚ like Philippines and China‚ people can see the hydroelectric production clearly by year. There are some hydroelectric stations which are typical in these countries. Like the Bela in Philippines and the Three Gorges Dam in China. What’s more‚ we can also know something about the development of hydroelectric in these
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The May 2010 election was considered to be the cleanest and fastest elections in the Philippines since the restoration of elite democracy after the dark Martial Law years of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. This is despite the controversies looming on the automated elections‚ the system glitches during the elections‚ the failure of elections in some towns‚ the reported massive vote buying‚ the reported pre-shading of ballots‚ the millions of disenfranchised voters‚ most of them first time voters
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think of it‚ why stay on this kind of unhappy relationships? According to the Philippine Commission on Women website‚ “physical injuries and/or wife battering remains to be the most prevalent case across the twelve-year period‚ from 1997–2009‚ accounting nearly half (45.5 percent) of all reported violence against women (VAW) cases nationwide.” Yes‚ we already have annulment and legal separation in the Philippines but these systems are nothing but flawed—allowing only separation for such grounds
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scheme for the republicans to gain more votes or to prevent voter fraud at the polls. After researching this topic my opinions is voting fraud is not a huge problem in the United States about 15 cases of voter fraud occurs each year. This law is being used as republican’s tool from keeping democratic voters from voting. Voter id law would discourage citizen from voting so the outcome may result in their favor. In the U.S. census data the poverty rate for Hispanic is at 25.8% and for African Americans
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