Autonomy…Again? Foreword This paper summarizes the historical background‚ causes‚ and a possible solution to end the ongoing ethnic conflict in The Philippines. The Muslim Filipinos of Mindanao and the Christian Filipinos have been fighting the second oldest internal ethnic dispute in the world. Over 120‚000 people have died and 2 million have been displaced in this four decades long battle.1 For many years‚ the central government’s attempts at peace‚ institutional restructuring‚ and regional autonomy
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The Philippine Legislature created the Commission of Independence in November 1918 “for the purpose of studying all matters related to the negotiation and organization of Philippine Independence.” This Commission was composed of eleven senators‚ and forty congressmen‚ majority coming from the Nacionalista Party. One of the most important undertaking of the Commission was the dispatch of the Independence Missions to the United States and alongside this‚ conducted a publicity campaign through the
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Philippine Airlines I. Executive Summary Philippine Air Lines also known as PAL‚ is the flag carrier and national airline of the Philippines‚ headquartered in the Philippine National Bank Financial Center in Pasay City. Philippine Airlines maintains aircraft with the highest degree of airworthiness‚ reliability and presentability in the most cost-effective manner; and conduct and maintain safe‚ reliable and cost-effective flight. It continues to achieve on-time performance on all flights it operates
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In Onofre Corpuz’s esssay on "Is there a Philippine Public Administration"‚ he negatively stated that there is a Philippine public administration by repeatedly stating‚ "It’s all very Filipino". He even stated that "...the existing public administration is faithfully Filipino.". I must agree with his statement because indeed‚ a Philippine public administration exists‚ I believe in terms of structure. I would like to quote Alex Brillantes‚ Jr. and Maricel Fernandez on their statement. "Yes we have
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“ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE PHILIPPINES” This list starts from the ratification of the Philippine Constitution in the First Republic ─ after the independence of the country in 1898. Thus‚ this list starts from the ratification of 1899 Constitution where Emilio Aguinaldo was the President of the Republic of the Philippines. The dates followed by their names are the dates of their terms: Presidents of the Philippines from Past to Present: 1. General Emilio Aguinaldo (January
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PHILIPPINE SOCIETY AND REVOLUTION Amado Guerrero Originally Published in Mimeograph by the Revolutionary School of Mao Tsetung Thought 1970 TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER ONE .......................................................................................................... 2 A REVIEW OF PHILIPPINE HISTORY .......................................................................
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TERRITORIAL CLAIMS BY THE PHILIPPINES 1. Sabah / North Borneo A majority of Filipinos everywhere are wondering what this Sabah claim is all about. The Philippine history books‚ Malaysian’s probably too‚ have not mentioned about the Philippines’ stake on the northern part of the island of Borneo. On the other hand‚ the Malaysians maybe furious that there are a lot of attention now being focused to that part of the Malaysian federation to which they believe was theirs since
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The Philippines Population (Live) counter shows a continuously updated estimate of the current population of The Philippines delivered by Worldometers’ RTS algorithm‚ which processes data collected from the United Nations Population Division. The Population of The Philippines (1950 - 2014) chart plots the total population count as of July 1 of each year‚ from 1950 to 2014. The Yearly Population Growth Rate chart plots the annual percentage changes in population registered on July 1 of each year
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the South East Asian nation of the Philippines. The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago‚ or chain of islands‚ located off the south-eastern coast of Asia. Consisting of over 7‚000 volcanic islands with a total land area of nearly 300‚000 square kilometers (approximately the size of Arizona)‚ islands of the Philippines are predominantly mountainous except for densely populated coastal plains on larger islands. The country is located over the Philippine Trench‚ a plate tectonic boundary which
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Formation of the Philippine Islands The Indo-Australian plate is found south of the Eurasian and the Philippine Seaplates. It is generally oceanic‚ being submerged by Indian and Pacific Oceans‚ but it holds two gigantic land masses – the island continent of Australia and Indian subcontinent. Recent researches‚ however‚ show that these two land masses are moving independently of each other‚ thus‚ may actually be parts of separate plates. The Philippine Sea plate is found east of the Eurasian
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