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The Philippines was under a state of emergency, announced by presidential spokesperson Ignacio Bunye on the morning of February 24, 2006, by the virtue of Proclamation No. 1017. This occurred after the government claimed that it foiled an alleged coup d'état attempt against the rule of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo earlier that same day.
Daily Tribune. The Daily Tribune is an English-language broadsheet publication in the Philippines. Its office is in the 3450 Concept Building, Florida Street, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. The Daily Tribune, as it was called then, was founded on February 1, 2000, by a group of journalists from the then-defunct The Philippine Post led by ...
The New People's Army rebellion (often shortened to NPA rebellion, among other acronym-based names) is an ongoing conflict between the government of the Philippines and the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [3][9] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing communist ...
The department’s mission is to apply the law equally, without fear or favor, to all Americans. But that has not always been true. During the Cold War, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had repeatedly ...
The national roads in the Embo barangays remain under the jurisdiction of Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Metro Manila 2nd District Engineering Office that covers Makati, Parañaque, and the outskirt of Bonifacio Global City, while those in the rest of Taguig are under DPWH – Metro Manila 1st District Engineering Office. [102]
Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr. (Tagalog pronunciation:, December 11, 1933 – October 20, 2019), [1] commonly known as Nene Pimentel, was a Filipino politician and human rights lawyer [2] who was one of the leading political opposition leaders during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from ...
Imperial Manila (Filipino: Maynilang Imperyal) is a pejorative epithet used by sectors of Filipino society and non-Manileños to express the idea that all the affairs of the Philippines, whether in politics, economy and business or culture, are decided by what goes on in the capital region, Metro Manila, without considering the needs of the rest of the country, largely because of centralized ...
Fighting between U.S. and Philippine troops almost broke out as the former moved to dislodge the latter from strategic positions around Manila. On the eve of the staged battle, Anderson telegraphed Aguinaldo, "Do not let your troops enter Manila without the permission of the American commander. On this side of the Pasig River you will be under ...