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A Filipino woman who spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia arrived in Manila on Wednesday, reuniting with her family after narrowly escaping a firing squad in 2015. Convicted in 2010 of ...
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) [50] are citizens or people identified with the country of the Philippines.The majority of Filipinos today are predominantly Catholic [51] and come from various Austronesian peoples, all typically speaking Tagalog, English, or other Philippine languages.
The Marcos family (UK: / ˈ m ɑːr k ɒ s / MAR-koss, US: /-k oʊ s,-k ɔː s /-kohss, -kawss, [1] [2] Tagalog:) is a political family in the Philippines.They have established themselves in the country's politics, having established a political dynasty [3] [4] that traces its beginnings to the 1925 election of Mariano Marcos to the Philippine House of Representatives as congressman for ...
The Cojuangco (Kapampangan: [koˈ(x)wəŋku]; Tagalog: [kɔˈhwaŋkɔ]; Chinese: 許寰哥; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘-hoân-ko; Min Nan Chinese: [kʰɔ˥˧huan˨˦ko˦]) clan is a prominent Filipino family descended from Co Yu Hwan (許玉寰; Khó͘ Gio̍k-khoân), who migrated to the Philippines in 1861 from Hongjian Village, Jiaomei Township, Zhangzhou, Fujian. [1]
In 1995, Bongbong Marcos pushed a deal to allow the Marcos family to keep a quarter of the estimated US$2 billion to US$10 billion (₱98,499,999,999.61 to ₱492,499,999,998.03 in 2024) that the Philippine government had still not recovered from them, on the condition that all civil cases be dropped – a deal that was eventually struck down ...
The following is a list of notable political families of the Philippines and their areas of influence. Names in bold indicate the individual was/is a president of the Philippines. The Philippine political arena is mainly arranged and operated by families or alliances of families, rather than being organized around political parties.
The Solid North, and particularly Ilocos Norte, remains to be the Marcoses’ political stronghold today. Several of the Marcoses currently cannot set foot in any United States territory because of a contempt judgement. [73] The family was at its peak during the presidency of Ferdinand E. Marcos, son of Mariano Marcos, who ruled from 1965 until ...
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.