Members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines meanwhile does the traditional salutes.

The majority Catholic Philippines is the last officially secular country that does not have civil divorce for the whole population ; Muslims, however, are granted divorce rights as per their religion.

* " The sum and substance of the conquest of the Philippines is to find a field where cheap labor can be secured, labor that does not strike, that does not belong to a union, that does not need an army to keep it in leading strings, that will make goods for the trusts of this country "

On July 4, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation declaring an end to the Philippine Insurrection and a cessation of hostilities in the Philippines " except in the country inhabited by the Moro tribes, to which this proclamation does not apply.

In Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Poland, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, Austria, Bulgaria, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, France, Spain, Switzerland, the Australian states of Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland, Finland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic, a test pass using an automatic car does not entitle the driver to use a manual car on the public road ; a test with a manual car is required.

It is the only language to have developed in the Philippines ( a member of Philippine languages ) which does not belong to the family of Austronesian languages, although it shows a characteristic common to the sub-classification of Malayo-Polynesian languages, the reduplication.

The myth of the aswang is well known throughout the Philippines, except in the Ilocos region, which is the only region that does not have an equivalent myth .< ref >

The airport was once a sleeping asset of the city for it does not, in any way, generate revenue, with only chartered and private planes using it ; but it is currently being upgraded, and is on its way towards its commercialization, in order to attract tourists and to lighten the burden of traveling to Vigan from Manila and most parts of the Philippines.

Moreover, because of this implementation of Spanish naming customs ( given name-paternal surname-maternal surname ) in the Philippines, a Spanish surname does not necessarily denote Spanish ancestry

Japan does not declare war but instead launches sneak attacks on United States ships en route to the Philippines and Hawaii ; an invasion fleet about to launch a surprise attack on San Francisco is stopped by the hero using the weapon from a captured Japanese vessel.

Because of the unrelated label in the Philippines owning the rights to the Universal Records name in that country, parent company Universal Music Group does business there as MCA Music, Inc., using UMG's former name.

The Philippine Constitution does not allow 100 % ownership of foreigners on businesses in the Philippines.

Corypha ( Gebang Palm, Buri Palm or Talipot Palm ) is a genus of six or seven species ( the World Checklist ( WCSP ) does not recognise C. macropoda, but IUCN does ) of palms ( family Arecaceae ), native to India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, northeastern Australia ( Cape York Peninsula, Queensland ), and the West Indies.

Owned by Feliciano family, Banda MorRiz does not only play in the town of Morong but are also invited in other places in the Philippines and outside the country.

The Party has always been looked upon with suspicion by the rest of the movements and organizations in the Philippine Left as it is the only member of the Left ( a long-time member of the Socialist International ) that does not trace its roots to the Communist Party of the Philippines or to the ideology of Jose Ma.

Because of the mass implementation of Spanish surnames in the Philippines, a Spanish surname does not indicate Spanish ancestry and can make it difficult for Filipinos to accurately trace their lineage.

Efforts such as the Community Development Program in the Philippines have demonstrated that transitional societies can work toward balanced national development.

Unlike the Hamza, the 153 km-long underground river in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and the 8. 2 km-long Cabayugan River in the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in the Philippines have come into being thanks to the karst topography.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1995 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile, and even being spotted outside the Americas in countries like Russia and The Philippines.

Mexico, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and the Côte d ' Ivoire, have lost large areas of their rainforest.

Finland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland have non-resident embassies in the Philippines.

Furthermore, in recent years, growing migration fluxes from the Far East ( notably, China and the Philippines ) and Latin America ( Ecuador, Peru ) have been recorded.

Over the years, Jeepneys have become the most ubiquitous symbol of the modern Philippines, even as they have been decorated in more elaborate and flamboyant styles by their owners.

They have long been cultivated in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and southeast Asia.

Violent reactions to karaoke singing have made headlines in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, with reports of killings by listeners disturbed by the singing.

The native Maguindanaon and other native Muslim or non-Muslim groups of Mindanao have a culture that is different from the main cultures of the Southern Philippines.

Had it not been for shipwrecked islanders who took refuge in the Philippines, Europeans likely would not have found Palau until much later.

The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans using rafts or primitive boats, at least 67, 000 years ago as the 2007 discovery of Callao Man showed .< ref >

Two planarian species have been used successfully in the Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii, New Guinea, and Guam to control populations of the imported giant African snail Achatina fulica, which was displacing native snails.

Many pawnshops in the Philippines have adapted other services into their nationwide branches like Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshop. Services like international and domestic remittance, insurance, bills payment, b2b money collection, e-loading for mobile phones, ticketing, and even banking are not unusual to see in a regular pawnshop the Philippines.

Long isolated from other pigs on the many islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, pigs have evolved into many different species, including wild boar, bearded pigs, and warty pigs.

Underwater telephone cables have been laid that lead to Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.

The U. S. was not the only nation to increase its military readiness, with other notable examples being the Philippines and Indonesia, countries that have their own internal conflicts with Islamist terrorism.

India and the Philippines have fully separate Muslim civil laws, wholly based on sharia.

In the Philippines, the term cadet is used in mostly military attached organizations, but it is more distinctive in the service academies of the Philippines, such as these are the Philippine Military Academy ( PMA ), the Philippine National Police Academy ( PNPA ), and Philippine Merchant Marine Academy ( PMMA ).

It also became famous throughout the Philippines for the outstanding academic achievements of students ( and its distinctive corps of military cadets ) from its Binmaley Catholic High School, especially when it was headed by a German priest, Fr.

The origin of the garment is disputed, as various claims for the distinctive style have been made in several Latin America countries as well as the Philippines.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

The Philippines ' armed forces may use their standard national flag, but during times of war the flag is turned upside down.

Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.

A year later a war erupted in the Philippines causing business, labor and government leaders in the US to condemn America's occupation in the Philippines.

* 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War

* The flag of the Philippines is the only flag which may be hoisted upside-down when the Filipino Congress has declared the nation to be in a " state of war ".

Bryan had strongly supported the war against Spain, but denounced the annexation of the Philippines as imperialism that would spoil America's innocence.

The Seven Years ' War, which began in 1756, was the first war waged on a global scale, fought in Europe, India, North America, the Caribbean, the Philippines and coastal Africa.

The first battle of the war, as well as the first battle in the Philippines Campaign.

Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.

In the Philippines, the Communist Party of the Philippines ( CPP ) and its New People's Army ( NPA ) has been waging a revolutionary war since 1968.

As a result of the nationalist efforts to deny or rationalize the war crimes, the controversy surrounding the massacre remains a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese relations, as well as Japanese relations with other Asia-Pacific nations such as South Korea and the Philippines.

In 1815, there was the end of the galleon trade across the Pacific Ocean between the Philippines and Mexico, since Mexico had declared its indepencence of the Spanish Empire in 1810, and an extended war of independence had begun that lasted through 1821.

The United States took possession under international law of the Philippines after the Treaty of Paris of 1898 ended the war.

Other DIA analytical efforts during the mid-1980s centered on the attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the Iran – Iraq War, the conflict in Afghanistan, the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the civil war in Chad, and unrest in the Philippines.

Most of his later films were shot in the Philippines ( especially his war films ).

It will be recalled that among the many things for which the Philippines was famous abroad before the first world war was the Philippine Constabulary Band.