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Vibal Publishing House, Inc. (also known as Vibal Group, Inc., Vibal, or VPHI) is a major publishing house in the Philippines based in Quezon City. Vibal was founded in 1953 by Hilarion P. Vibal and by his wife, Esther Asuncion-Vibal. [1] Vibal is a textbook, reference materials, and multimedia products publisher and is the biggest in the country.
Anvil Publishing, Inc., is the publishing arm of National Book Store.It publishes print books, e-books, and audiobooks. Anvil is a nationwide book dealer to network servicing dealers in the Philippines which includes National Book Store (Anvil's parent company), Goodwill Book Store, Rex Book Store, and Solidaridad.
Among the possible inspirations of publishing Tagalog romance paperback novels were the Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romance love story pocketbooks. [4] The actual idea of publishing Tagalog romance paperbacks in the Philippines was conceptualized by Benjie Ocampo, the proprietor of Books for Pleasure, Inc., the company that carried the English-language Mills & Boon pocketbooks line in the country.
The show is the Philippine version of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. Hosted by Janno Gibbs, it premiered on October 27, 2007. The first season concluded on March 29, 2008. The show returned for its second season on November 8, 2008. The show concluded on May 9, 2009 with a total of 47 episodes.
The founding of Silliman University by Presbyterian missionaries and the Philippine Normal School (PNS) in 1901 and the University of the Philippines (U.P.) in 1908, as well as of English newspapers like the Daily Bulletin (1900), The Cablenews (1902), and the Philippines Free Press (1905), helped boost English usage.
Philippine Comics (Filipino: Komiks) have been popular throughout the nation from the 1920s to the present. Comics scholar John A. Lent posited that the Philippine comics tradition has "the strongest audience appeal, best-known cartooning geniuses, and most varied comics content" in Asia after Japan and Hong Kong.
A diver breathing pressurized gas accumulates dissolved inert gas used in the breathing mixture to dilute the oxygen to a non-toxic level in the tissues, which can cause potentially fatal decompression sickness ("the bends") if permitted to come out of solution within the body tissues; hence, returning to the surface safely requires lengthy ...
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (Filipino: Lupon sa Rebyu at Klasipikasyon ng Pelikula at Telebisyon; [1] abbreviated as MTRCB) is a Filipino government agency under the Office of the President of the Philippines that is responsible for the classification and review of television programs, motion pictures and home videos.