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  2. Catálogo alfabético de apellidos - Wikipedia

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    The Catálogo alfabético de apellidos (English: Alphabetical Catalogue of Surnames; Filipino: Alpabetikong Katalogo ng mga apelyido) is a book of surnames in the Philippines and other islands of Spanish East Indies published in the mid-19th century.

  3. Invasive species in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Introduced in the Philippines in 1942 during World War II by the Imperial Japanese military from Taiwan. A crop pest. [7] Golden apple snail: Pomacea canaliculata: Nationwide: South America: Introduced in the Philippines from Argentina via Taiwan in the 1980s. It was originally intended as a protein source for farmers' diet and was also kept as ...

  4. Cinema of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The board consisted of 15 members that sought "to examine all films, spoken or silent, imported or produced in the Philippine Islands, and prohibit the introduction and exhibition in this country of films, which in their judgement are immoral or contrary to law and good customs or injurious to the prestige of the Government of people of the ...

  5. Optical Media Board - Wikipedia

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    The Optical Media Board (OMB), formerly known as the Videogram Regulatory Board (VRB), is a Philippine government agency that is part of the Office of the President of the Philippines, responsible for regulating the production, use and distribution of recording media in the Philippines.

  6. List of government-issued identity documents of the Philippines

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    Philippine Statistics Authority: Married Filipino citizens [1] National identity card Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) ID: Philippine Statistics Authority: Filipino citizens and non-Filipino citizens with permanent residency [4] NBI clearance: National Bureau of Investigation [5] Overseas Employment Certificate

  7. Constitutional reform in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the People's Initiative method of amending the constitution is "fatally defective", or inoperable. Another ruling in 2006 on another attempt at a People's Initiative was ruled unconstitutional by the court [15] This only leaves the Constituent Assembly and the Constitutional Convention as the valid ways to amend the constitution.

  8. PDF - Wikipedia

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    A PDF file is organized using ASCII characters, except for certain elements that may have binary content. The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [23]

  9. Digital Audio Broadcasting - Wikipedia

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    Digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) and DAB-IP are both suitable for mobile radio and TV because they support MPEG 4 AVC and WMV9 respectively as video codecs. However, a DMB video subchannel can easily be added to any DAB transmission, as it was designed to be carried on a DAB subchannel.