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  2. Typhoons in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is a typhoon -prone country, with approximately 20 typhoons entering its area of responsibility each year. Locally known generally as bagyo, [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the ...

  3. Philippine Standard Time - Wikipedia

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    Philippine Standard Time ( PST [1] [2] or PhST; [3] [4] Filipino: Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas ), also known as Philippine Time ( PHT ), [citation needed] is the official name for the time zone used in the Philippines. The country only uses a single time zone, at an offset of UTC+08:00, but has used daylight saving time for brief periods in ...

  4. DVD region code - Wikipedia

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    DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. [1] It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back ...

  5. Goa, Camarines Sur - Wikipedia

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    Poverty Incidence of Goa 10 20 30 40 50 2006 33.90 2009 41.18 2012 27.47 2015 35.43 2018 28.56 2021 36.04 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Goa is a bustling commercial center in the Partido area. It has 2 shopping malls LCC Mall and 101 Shopping Center. It has several banks as well. It has 3 radio stations that broadcast all across Camarines Sur extending to some parts of Camarines ...

  6. Camiguin - Wikipedia

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    Camiguin Island is a pearl-shaped island with an area of approximately 238 km 2 (92 sq mi). [4] The island measures about 23 kilometres (14 mi) at its longest and 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) at its widest breadth. [18] The island is mountainous with the highest elevation reaching over 5,000 ft (1,500 m).

  7. Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone - Wikipedia

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    Gas depot in Boton area. In mid-2019, some 135,000 workers were employed in Subic Bay Freeport, 68% in the service industry and 17% in the manufacturing industry. Subic was a shipbuilding hub. The now-defunct Hanjin Philippines was the single biggest employer in the area prior to its bankruptcy in January 2019. As of mid-2019, 5,901 workers ...

  8. Archipelago Philippine Ferries Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Archipelago Philippine Ferries Corporation (FastCat) Archipelago Philippine Ferries Corporation (APFC) is a ferry company based in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines. It serves passenger and cargo routes serving select seaports in the Philippines with its fleet of catamaran Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo) ferries. It also operates ports and terminals.

  9. Mandaluyong - Wikipedia

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    Country Philippines: ... It is also the 6th-smallest city in the Philippines with a land area of 21.26 km 2 ... Philippine Standard Geographic Code;