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Gun law in the Philippines is regulated by the Firearms and Explosives Office of the Philippine National Police. In order to possess a firearm in the Philippines , a person must be at a minimum age of 21 years and pass a background check to be issued a License To Own And Possess Firearms (LTOPF).
[6] [11] The Philippines has made 34 cumulative submissions to the category, but none have been nominated for an Oscar, the latest being the 2024 submission And So It Begins. Filmmakers Marilou Diaz-Abaya and Gil Portes have each represented the Philippines three times in this category, the most for any director, and including two consecutive ...
March 11 – President Marcos signs into law Republic Act No. 11984 or the No Permit, No Exam Prohibition Act, allowing students with unpaid school fees to take examinations, [54] [55] and Republic Act No. 11983 or the New Philippine Passport Act, which allows for online Philippine passport applications.
Visa free transit (up to 30 days) provided holding a valid U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand visa, and arriving from or departing to those countries. Visa-free access for 30 days to Jeju Island. Group tourists from the Philippines can travel visa-free through Yangyang International Airport until May 2024.
Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP; English: Federal Party of the Philippines, Spanish: Partido Federal de Filipinas) [5] is a national political party in the Philippines.It is chaired by Bongbong Marcos, president of the Philippines who won by a landslide in the 2022 election.
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is a task force organized by the government of the Philippines in 2018 as part of its "Whole-of-Nation approach" to respond to and raise awareness about ongoing communist armed conflicts in the Philippines, [1] [2] after the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated peace talks between the ...
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO, Filipino: Tanggapan sa Charity Sweepstakes ng Pilipinas [2]) is a government-owned and controlled corporation of the Philippines under direct supervision of the Office of the President of the Philippines. It is mandated to do fund raising and provide funds for health programs, medical assistance ...
After World War II, President Manuel Roxas issued Executive Order (EO) No. 94 on October 4, 1947, creating the Department of Commerce and Industry (DCI). [4] Cornelio Balmaceda, a much sought-after professor of economics and director of the Bureau of Commerce (BOC), was appointed acting secretary of the newly created Department of Commerce and Industry.