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Both rose to power as the legacies of their fathers loomed large in the Philippines. Duterte's father, Rodrigo Duterte , was president from 2016 to 2022 and earned himself a controversial ...
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is the transmission system operator for three grids constituting the Philippine grid and as a franchise holder and transmission service provider, it is in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country's power grid, [27] controls the supply and demand of power by determining ...
MANILA (Reuters) -President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Monday the presence of a Russian attack submarine in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea was "very ...
February 4. The International Astronomical Union names an asteroid 7431 Jettaguilar in honor of Jose Francisco Aguilar, a medical doctor and amateur astronomer. [12]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation places three members of Kingdom of Jesus Christ on its most wanted list, among them its founder Apollo Quiboloy, accused of sex trafficking.
The Philippines is the United States' oldest treaty ally in Asia. While he has not discussed specifics of his foreign policy, Bongbong has been quoted as saying he will foster closer ties with China.
On July 4, 2022, House of Representatives Secretary-General Mark Llandro Mendoza announced that it was expected that 315 members and 24 senators would attend the event, a total of 339 people. Mendoza also announced that the number of media to be allowed into the Batasang Pambansa would be limited. [ 11 ]
In 2013, Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, left more than 7,300 people dead or missing, flattened entire villages, swept ships inland, and displaced more than 5 million ...
Under a regime of martial law, President Ferdinand Marcos in July 1973 announced the decision to build a nuclear power plant. This was in response to the 1973 oil crisis, as the Middle East oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the Philippine economy, and Marcos believed nuclear power to be the solution to meeting the country's energy demands and decreasing dependence on imported oil.