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In the Philippines in 2001, a group of protesters organized via text messaging gathered at the EDSA Shrine, the site of the 1986 revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos, to protest the corruption of President Joseph Estrada.
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Philippines and 2001
* 2001 – Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines ; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.
The 2001 attacks were preceded by the less well known Bojinka plot which was planned in the Philippines by Ramzi Yousef ( of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ) and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
According to immigration records in the Philippines, someone named Saeed al-Ghamdi visited that country on at least 15 occasions in 2001, entering as a tourist.
On October 14, 2008, the Court, conducted a series of divided votes declared " contrary to law and the Constitution " the MOA-AD of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front Tripoli Agreement of Peace on 2001.
2001 RA 9048 amends Articles 376 and 412 of the Civil Code of the Philippines, which prohibit the change of name or surname of a person, or any correction or change of entry in a civil register without a judicial order.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ( born April 5, 1947 ) is a Filipino politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga.
The island also has many other large, strongly defined lingual and ethnic groups because of the large percentage of contract workers ( 60 % of total population, as of 2001 ) from China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Joseph " Erap " Ejercito Estrada ( born Jose Marcelo Ejercito on April 19, 1937 ) was the 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 until 2001.
* Philippines – Fireworks and firecrackers are widely available throughout the Philippines, but are banned in Olongapo City ( since 2008 ) and Davao City ( since 2001 ).
* A film about the alleged treasure, Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure, directed by Chito S. Roño was released in the Philippines in 2001.
* Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo-served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Pampanga.
* Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ( 1968 ), President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
In February 2001, San Miguel once again regained control of Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc.
The Zafira was sold in the Philippines from 2001 to 2005, being the last European-based Opel car to be sold in the Philippines after they stopped selling the Opel Astra in 2003.
He is the father of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
Philippines and group
Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, assassinations and extortion in what they describe as their fight for an independent Islamic province in the Philippines.
* Lyrically Deranged Poets, a hiphop group in the Philippines
The group finally declared its full autonomy and incorporated legally with Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines and was approved on December 7, 2011 with papers held for by present procurators.
* CIRCULO SANTA MARIA DE BETANIA, group dedicated to the devotion of Saint Mary of Bethany in the Philippines
Specifically, it is an Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern islands of the Republic of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.
Oceania, group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines
The Visayas is the group of islands in the central Philippines, the largest of which are: Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Samar.
* Sweeney Todd Musical, a 2009 musical rendition by the Repertory Philippines group, starring Audie Gemora in the title role, and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo as Mrs. Lovett.
Among proponents, there is yet no agreement as to whether they are a sister group to Austronesian in a family called Austro-Tai, a backmigration from Taiwan to the mainland, or a later migration from the Philippines to Hainan during the Austronesian expansion.
* February 27 – 2004 SuperFerry 14 bombing: The Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group is blamed for the deadliest terrorist attack at sea in world history, which kills 116 in the Philippines.
It was founded by a group of academics from the University of the Philippines Diliman in April 1991.
It was first conceptualized in September 2005 by a group of experts, academics and practitioners who see the need to establish a center in the Philippines dedicated to the study of political violence and terrorism and their implications for peace and security.
Today in the Philippines, this ethnic group of people in Mindanao, who are generally Muslims, are called ' Moros '.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front ( MILF ) ( Arabic: جبهة تحرير مورو الإسلامية, Jabhat Tahrir Mooroo al-Islamiyyah ) is a Sunni Islamist group located in the southern Philippines.
The Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) is an Islamist group formed in the 1960s following the Jabidah massacre to achieve greater Bangsamoro autonomy in the southern Philippines.
The MILF also continues to deny connections with Al-Qaeda, though it has admitted to sending around 600 volunteers to Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and that Osama Bin Laden sent money to the Philippines, though the group denies directly receiving any payment.
The government of the Philippines uses the term " region " ( in Filipino, rehiyon ) when it's necessary to group provinces, the primary administrative subdivision of the country.
Honey bees as a group appear to have their centre of origin in South and South East Asia ( including the Philippines ), as all but one ( i. e. Apis mellifera ), of the extant species are native to that region.
* Scarborough Shoal, a group of islands disputed by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China and Philippines.
* Ati ( Philippines ), a Negrito ethnic group in the Philippines
He came back to Menudo to complete a tour in Brazil, their 1987 Summer in the Streets tour after Robby Rosa quit the group to introduce new member Ruben Gomez and for their last tour in the Philippines when Ralphy Rodriguez was pulled out of the group by his parents late that year.
* 2001-New Tribes Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham are kidnapped in the Philippines by Muslim terrorist group ; Baptist missionary Roni Bowers and her infant daughter are killed when a Peruvian Air Force jet fires on their small float-plane.
Philippines and organized
In the 1990s, organizations began to spring up in non-western countries, such as Progay Philippines, which was founded in 1993 and organized the first Gay Pride march in Asia on June 26, 1994.
The Politics of the Philippines takes place in an organized framework of a presidential, representative, and democratic republic whereby the president is both the head of state and the head of government within a pluriform multi-party system.
On 26 June 1994, on the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines ( ProGay Philippines ) and Metropolitan Community Church ( MCC ) Manila organized the First LGBT Pride March in Asia, marching from EDSA to Quezon Avenue ( Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines ) and highlighting broad social issues.
In 1996, 1997 and 1998 large and significant marches were organized and produced by Reachout AIDS Foundation, all of which were held in Malate, Manila, Philippines.
The most firework rockets intentionally launched in 30 seconds is 125, 801, in an attempt organized by Pyroworks International Inc. ( Philippines ), in Cebu, Philippines, on May 8, 2010.
During Spanish and early American colonial rule, certain areas of the Philippines were designated as ' districts ,' mainly those that have not been formally organized into provinces or incorporated into existing ones.
The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U. S. Armed Forces in the Far East ( USAFFE ) to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines.
Meanwhile, the Japanese military organized a new government in the Philippines known as the Second Philippine Republic, which was headed by president José P. Laurel.
* The President should call into the service of the US all organized military forces of the Commonwealth of the Philippines ;
The 24th FA was organized in 1922 at Fort Stotsenburg, in the Philippines, from the 1st Philippine Artillery Regiment.
While in the Philippines, in 1874, under a commission from a British architect, Slocum organized native workers to build a 150-ton steamer in the shipyard at Subic Bay.
Regions first came to existence in on September 24, 1972 when the provinces of the Philippines were organized into 11 regions by Presidential Decree No. 1 as part of the Integrated Reorganization Plan of President Ferdinand Marcos.
It was perceived to be the military arm of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ( Communist Party of the Philippines ), that brought about the beginning of the early organized resistance of the Filipino people.
Lone Girl Scout troops were organized in the Philippines as early as 1918 by American missionaries and servicemen.
With his " Planning for a new homeSystemic Change Strategy ," he organized Philippines massive home constructions, which he began by the savings program in Payatas dumpsite.
The first chapter outside the US was organized in the Philippines that year.
Today, Protestant and Evangelical churches and denominations are grouped into major councils of churches: The National Council of Churches in the Philippines ( NCCP ), and the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches ( PCEC ) organized in 1964.
Some survivors escaped to Corregidor Island in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands and surrendered on 6 May 1942, ending all US organized resistance to the Japanese in the Philippines.
The Asian Media Information and Communication Centre ( AMIC ) was commissioned by UNESCO to do a feasibility study on " Training in Communication Planning in Asia " in 1974. It organized the first AMIC Regional Conference on Development Communication Policies and Planning in Manila, Philippines in May 1977.
A group was organized in 1920 to administrate squadrons in the Philippines.
The local government of Maitum, Sarangani in the Philippines has organized a campaign to save the species from extinction.
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