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Filipino people, Overseas Filipinos. Filipinos in Singapore consists of citizens of the Philippines working or residing in Singapore. According to a 2013 estimate by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, a total of 203,243 Filipinos work or reside in the country, a portion of which could consist of permanent residents or persons of Filipino ...
Flor Contemplacion was born in San Pablo City in the Laguna province of Luzon, and was married with four children at the time of her death.In 1988, she travelled to Singapore in search of work to support her young family, eventually finding employment as a domestic servant in the Cardiff Road area of Serangoon.
Pages in category "Singaporean people of Filipino descent" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Ethnonym. A Sama lepa houseboat from the Philippines ( c. 1905) Sama-Bajau is a collective term, referring to several closely related indigenous people who consider themselves a single distinct bangsa ("ethnic group" or "nation"). [ 6][ 11] It is generally accepted that these groups of people can be termed Sama or Bajau, though they never call ...
Demographics of Singapore. As of June 2023, the population of Singapore stands at 5.92 million. [ 2] Of these 5.92 million people, 4.15 million are residents, consisting of 3.61 million citizens and 540,000 permanent residents (PRs). The remaining 1.77 million people living in Singapore are classed as non-residents, a group consisting mainly of ...
Mestizos as illustrated in the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734. In the Philippines, Filipino Mestizo (Spanish: mestizo (masculine) / mestiza (feminine); Filipino/Tagalog: Mestiso (masculine) / Mestisa (feminine)), or colloquially Tisoy, is a name used to refer to people of mixed native Filipino and any foreign ancestry. [3]
A Little Manila ( Filipino: Munting Maynila or Maliit na Maynila ), also known as a Manilatown ( Filipino: Bayang Maynila) or Filipinotown ( Filipino: Bayang Pilipino ), is a community with a large Filipino immigrant and descendant population. Little Manilas are enclaves of Overseas Filipinos consisting of people of Filipino origin living ...
The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, [c] took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War. The Japanese Empire captured the British stronghold of Singapore, with fighting lasting from 8 to 15 February 1942. Singapore was the foremost British military base and economic port in South–East Asia and had ...