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  2. Palo, Leyte - Wikipedia

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    Poverty Incidence of Palo 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 19.50 2009 24.62 2012 17.90 2015 22.43 2018 18.55 2021 20.12 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Palo is the seat of the 6.8-hectare Leyte Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Park and the 22-hectare Leyte Mikyu Economic Zone. The Leyte ICT Park hosts two BPOs while the Leyte Mikyu Ecozone is undergoing development. The town's ...

  3. Tacloban - Wikipedia

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    Poverty Incidence of Tacloban 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 10.90 2009 20.45 2012 9.75 2015 21.45 2018 8.08 2021 10.70 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Tacloban is the economic center of the entire Eastern Visayas, with an economy largely focused on agriculture, commerce, and tourism. Proximal to the city proper is the 237-hectare Eastern Visayas Agri-Industrial Growth Center (EVRGC), which was ...

  4. Education in Tacloban - Wikipedia

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    Tacloban College in 2016. Tacloban, Philippines, has a variety of public and private educational institutions.Foremost of these are the University of the Philippines in the Visayas - Tacloban College, Eastern Visayas State University, the Leyte Progressive High School, a provincial branch of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, the Leyte Normal University, the Liceo del ...

  5. United Church of Christ in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The United Church is a mainline Protestant group in the Philippines with around 1,500,000 members and 1,593 pastors in 2,564 congregations as of 2008. [3] [4] Its main office is located at 877 EDSA, West Triangle, Quezon City, Metro Manila. [5]

  6. List of Chinese schools in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    A map showing the number of Chinese schools in each Philippine province/area. 1. Makati Hope Christian School. 马加智嘉南学校. 1985. Chino Roces Ave., Brgy. Magallanes, Makati City. 2. Makati Hope Christian School Ortigas.

  7. Waray language - Wikipedia

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    Waray (also known as Waray-Waray or Bisayâ/Binisayâ nga Winaray/Waray, Spanish: idioma samareño meaning Samar language) is an Austronesian language and the fifth-most-spoken native regional language of the Philippines, native to Eastern Visayas. It is the native language of the Waray people and second language of the Abaknon people of Capul ...

  8. Waray literature - Wikipedia

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    Waray literature. Earliest accounts of this literature date back to 1668 when a Spanish Jesuit by the name of Fr. Francisco Ignacio Alzina documented the poetic forms such as the candu, haya, ambahan, canogon, bical, balac, siday and awit. He also described the susumaton and posong, early forms of narratives. Theater tradition was very much in ...

  9. English as a lingua franca - Wikipedia

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    e. English as a lingua franca ( ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" [1] [2] and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". [3] [4] ELF is "defined functionally by ...