The Philippine Eagle was known initially as the Philippine Monkey-Eating Eagle because it was believed to feed on monkeys ( the only monkey native to the Philippines is the Philippine long-tailed macaque ) almost exclusively ; this has proven to be inaccurate.

In Philippine folklore, the vampiric tiyanak shares many similarities in terms of origin with the pontianak.

The Association of Fundamental Baptist Churches shares a common early history with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches.

With this marriage, Fermina Montojo became stepmother to her husband's three young children: Jacobo ( father of polo player billionaire Enrique Zobel de Ayala y Olgado ), Alfonso ( father of photographer billionaire Jaime Zobel de Ayala y Pfitz ) and the youngest, Mercedes Zobel de Ayala y Roxas de McMicking ( a. k. a. MacMicking ) who owned the majority of shares in the Ayala Corporation, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom, Cebu Holdings, Honda Philippines, and was, together with husband Joseph McMicking, developer of the Sotogrande in Spain and the entire Makati central business district, including Forbes Park.

In March 2000, its Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) started the trading of its shares on the Toronto ( TSX ), New York ( NYSE ) and Philippine ( PSE ) stock exchanges.

Later that year, the shares of Manulife Financial Corporation, the holding company of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, began trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange ( TSX ), the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) and the Philippine Stock Exchange ( PSE ) under the ticker ' MFC ', and on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong ( SEHK ) under the ticker ‘ 945 ’.

The shares of the Lopez and Gokongwei Families were sold to the SSS and GSIS which acquired 78 % of PCI Bank shares that were bought by the Go-Led Equitable Banking Corporation and they merged in 1999 and was approved by the Bangko Sentral and other agencies that had created the Third Largest Philippine Bank with Equitable as the survivor of the merger and the name Equitable PCI Bank was adopted.

To become a general ophthalmologist, a candidate must have completed a Doctor of Medicine degree or its equivalent ( e. g. MBBS ), have passed the physician licensure exam, completed an internship in medicine, and completed residency at any Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology ( PAO ) accredited program.

Due to the diverse number Philippine languages, a program for the " development and adoption of a common national language based on the existing native dialects " was drafted in the 1935 Philippine constitution.

This was created in preparation for the Defense capability of the Philippines-10 year program of training of Filipino Servicemen and Civilian Volunteers ( Reserve ) forming the Philippine Army as the main ground forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

* Show and Tell, a Philippine program on Global News Network

Its Loyola Schools programs were also awarded Level IV re-accreditation, the first time that a Philippine university was granted both Level IV program and institutional accreditation.

Its most impressive work in its history is the housing program for hundreds of families specially those affected by demolitions and relocations in the Philippine North and South Railways ( PNR ) tracks.

* PhEdNet-A Department of Education ( DepEd ) program which gives Philippine public schools access only to DepEd approved multimedia applications and materials.

* U-Turn ( TV series ), a program on the Philippine channel UniversiTV

Cybertanod, Role Model Cop, and the Barangay PeaceKeeping Action Team ( BPAT ) program of The Philippine National Police are some of the contributions of The Guardian Angels Philippines Chapter in Police organization.

( TV series ), a Philippine reality TV program

Sin was the Manila archbishop at the time of the Philippine government's 1996 first implementation of a program to prevent the spread of HIV within the country and he called the program " intrinsically evil.

* Magandang Gabi, Bayan, a Philippine Documentary TV program.

Her Philippine career began when she hosted a radio program La Taverna over DZPI where she sang Spanish songs and played the guitar.

Her multiawarded TV program at ABS-CBN, An Evening with Pilita ( 1965 – 1972 ), is widely considered as one of the benchmarks in Philippine broadcasting history.

Ateneo de Davao is the only university in Mindanao to have been granted " institutional accreditation " by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities which denotes the highest distinction in the Philippines in consideration of its number of individual program accreditations and the result of an overall evaluation of the quality of its facilities, services, and faculty.

* Face to Face ( 1990 Philippine TV series ), a Philippine show-business program aired by GMA Network

* Spoon ( Philippine TV program ), a cooking talk show

Colonel Rowe was part of a military assistance program to the Philippine Army.

* The Beat ( Philippine TV series ), a current affairs and talk program

* Insider ( News TV series ) a 2003 Philippine news program

Air travel to Kalibo from Manila is about 45 minutes on a daily schedule with four airline companies flying: the Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Zest Air and Airphil Express.

Relatively little is known about the dibamid lizards, which are native to Mexico, SE Asia, Indonesia, the Philippine Islands and western New Guinea.

The B13 SuperSaloon and SE Saloon came with the GA16DE fuel-injected engine ( top of the line engine for the Philippine market ) which is comparable to the U. S Spec B13 SE Limited with loaded options.

It is located on the Palau-Kyushu Ridge in the Philippine Sea at, SE of Oki Daitō and WSW of Minami Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands or south of Tokyo, Japan.

" Besides European languages, such as Russian, Swedish, English, and Spanish, ISV lexical items also function in Japanese, Malay, Philippine languages, and other Asian languages.

Mainland American consists of many of the same varieties that can be found on U. S. radio, and Asian consists of Japanese, Korean, Thai and Philippine music among others.

Due to the Asian Financial crisis in 1997, Philippine Airlines terminated service to both Newark and O ' Hare and only operates service to west coast cities in the United States.

Thailand triggered the crisis on 2 July and on 3 July, the Philippine Central Bank intervened to defend the peso, raising the overnight rate from 15 % to 32 % at the onset of the Asian crisis in mid-July 1997.

" By then the President and his foreign policy advisers turned away from Asian issues to concentrate on Latin America, and Roosevelt redirected Philippine policy to prepare the islands to become the first Western colony in Asia to achieve self-government.

As the names would suggest, the Asian Fairy-bluebird occurs across southern Asia, and the Philippine Fairy-bluebird in that archipelago.

The Asian Fairy-bluebird is sexually dimorphic in its plumage, with the male being much brighter than the female, but the Philippine Fairy-bluebird exhibits much less difference and the female is almost as bright as the male.

This became a problem during the East Asian Financial Crisis when the demand for electricity contracted and the Philippine peso lost half of its value.

" They blamed him for the slowdown of the Philippine economy during the 1997 East Asian financial crisis.

Among these are the Embassies of the USA, Canada, Japan and Korea, the Asian Development Bank, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Chevron and Shell.

The Asian Institute of Management's study titled The Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2005 ranked the city first in ' infrastructure ' and tenth in ' dynamism of local economy ' among small cities of the Philippines.

Reyes was appointed Philippine Sports Ambassador of the 2005 South East Asian Games alongside some of the Philippines ' greatest athletes ( Allan Caidic, Rafael Nepomuceno ) to promote the event throughout the country.

After winning the Asian Championship, the Philippines qualified for the 1986 FIBA World Championship at Madrid, Spain, but due to the political crisis in the country ( that led to the 1986 Philippine People Power EDSA Revolution ), the national team did not participate in the tournament.

He made a successful recovery from that injury and in 1998, he was selected by Tim Cone for the Philippine Centennial Team bound for the William Jones Cup ( where he scored 25 points with six triples against South East Asian rival, Thailand ) and the Asian Games.

In 1898, the United States had become an East Asian power through the acquisition of the Philippine Islands, and when the partition of China by the European powers and Japan seemed imminent, the United States felt its commercial interests in China threatened.

The flight makes Philippine Airlines, Asias first airline, the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific Ocean.

* Asian States: India, Indonesia, Kuwait and Philippine.

The only other member of the genus and family is the Philippine Fairy-bluebird, I. cyanogastra, which replaces the Asian Fairy-bluebird in most of the Philippines.

During the Geneva Conference on Korean unification and other Asian problems, García as chairman of the Philippine delegation attacked communist promises in Asia and defended the U. S. policy in the Far East.

Jorge B. Vargas was the head of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation ( In 1976, was renamed as Philippine Olympic Committee ) and the Manila Asian Games Organizing Committee.

She was a judge in the first Asian Idol held in Indonesia, representing Philippine Idol.