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Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. [1] The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in.
About four months after the imposition of martial law, Marcos allowed a handful of newspapers and broadcast outfits to reopen.A group of former newspaper editors asked then the Department of Public Information (DPI) Secretary and later on Senator Francisco S. Tatad to explore the possibility of opening a government news agency by acquiring the World War II-vintage teletype machines and other ...
The Shisa with mouth open is in essence saying "aw" - the beginning of the Japanese phonetic language. The mouth closed shisa is thus saying "nn" or "mm" as the end of the same alphabet. There is little evidence supporting this theory, but the unique similarities are striking.
An overview of the media in the Philippines, as well as links to broadcasters and newspapers.
People's Television Network (PTV) is a government television network owned by the Government of the Philippines and the main brand of People's Television Network, Inc. (PTNI), one of the attached agencies under the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
Pages in category "News agencies based in the Philippines" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Chinese Commercial News (菲律賓商報) Philippine Chinese Daily (菲律賓華報) Sino-Fil Daily (菲華日報) Ta Kung Pao - Philippine edition (大公報 - 菲律賓版) United Daily News (聯合日報) Wen Wei Po - Philippine edition (文匯報 - 菲律賓版) World News (世界日報)