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A fierce storm was blowing out of the northern Philippines Tuesday after leaving at least 14 people dead in landslides, floods and swollen rivers, disaster-response officials said. Storm warnings ...
Mawar’s peak winds have surged to 175 mph, accompanied by gusts nearing 210 mph, the JWTC said, as it heads towards the Philippines. In its latest update, the state weather agency of the ...
Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly ...
Parties of current Philippine provincial governors shaded for their respective provinces. The Philippines has 82 provinces. Each province has a governor who serves as the chief executive of its government. [1] The governor is elected by the voters in the province for a three-year term with a maximum of three consecutive terms. [2]
List of Philippine provinces by population; List of Philippine provincial etymologies; List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index; List of Philippine provinces by poverty rate; List of demonyms for Philippine provinces; ISO 3166-2:PH; Sub-provinces of the Philippines, a defunct group of administrative divisions in the Philippines
The Philippines has placed all its commercial airports on heightened alert after an anonymous warning that bombs could go off on planes headed out of Manila, including to several tourist hotspots ...
An administrative region is a grouping of geographically adjacent LGUs that may be established, disestablished, and modified by the president of the Philippines based on the need to formulate coherent economic development policies, more efficiently provide national government services, and coordinate activities beneficial to the development of ...
Map of ancient Manila in 1570. The polity of Maynila shown in yellow.. Manila, to the extent that it has this placename, was likely founded in the Middle Ages, in the early 16th century [13] due to the Sanskrit origin of the component "nila" in its name which refers to "indigo", [14] and the prevalence of the placename during the rule of Rajah Matanda, the old king of Maynila, who was born ...