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The minimum wage of Metro Manila is at ₱645.00 ($13.1) per-day for non-agricultural workers and at ₱608.00 ($12.35) per-day for those working in the agricultural sector, [105] the highest minimum wage among all the 17 regions of the country. [106] However, an increase of ₱25 was made and implemented in November 2018. [107]
The Church of the East did not accept the third and following ecumenical councils and is still separate today by its successors (Assyrian Church of the East). In terms of prosperity and cultural life, the Byzantine Empire was one of the peaks in Christian history and Christian civilization , [ 53 ] and Constantinople remained the leading city ...
[93] [94] [69] The Tagalog language was chosen as an official language of the Philippines in 1935. Today, Filipino, a de facto version of Tagalog, is taught throughout the archipelago. [95] As of the 2019 census, there were about 22.5 million speakers of Tagalog in the Philippines, 23.8 million worldwide. [96]
Today, the dominant form of democracy is representative democracy, where citizens elect government officials to govern on their behalf such as in a parliamentary or presidential democracy. Most democracies apply in most cases majority rule , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] but in some cases plurality rule , supermajority rule or consensus rule are applied.
Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million speakers including second language speakers. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Spanish is the official language of 20 countries , as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations .
In 2021, the United States was the largest source of remittances to the Philippines, making up 40.5% of the $31.4 billion remittances received by the Philippines. [ 217 ] Community issues
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Pakistan, [e] officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, [f] is a country in South Asia.It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, [g] having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023.