The plight of Manila Zoo’s elephant‚ Mali Mali‚ the 38-year-old female elephant‚ has been living in an enclosure in a small enclosure of Manila Zoo for thirty-four years. In 1979 Mali was given by the government of Sri Lanka to the Republic of the Philippines as a form of a gift between two nations. After three decades of captivity in a concrete enclosure‚ a new opportunity has opened for the lonely elephant to spend her remaining days in the wild. PETA Asia‚ along with other animal activists
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[hide] 1 History 1.1 American period 1.2 Commonwealth Period 1.2.1 Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933 1.3 Independence 1.4 Ramon Magsaysay administration 1.5 Macapagal administration 1.5.1 Land Reform Code 1.6 Marcos administration 1.7 Corazon Aquino administration 1.8 Ramos administration 1.9 Arroyo administration 2 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History[edit] Much like Mexico and other Spanish colonies in the Americas‚ the Spanish settlement
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MKV TUA MATRIX OF THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS | HISTORY | | PRESIDENT | POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | POLITICAL EXPERIENCE | ACHIEVEMENTS | STRENGHTS‚ WEAKNESSES‚ THREATS | EVALUATION | EMILIO AGUINALDOYears of Administration:March 22‚1897- April 1‚ 1901 | Dedicated to the expulsion of the Spanish and independence of the Philippines through armed force. | He was elected cabeza de barangay of Binakayan‚ QuezonHe also engaged in inter-island shipping‚ travelling as far south as the Sulu ArchipelagoThe
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Priority Development Assistance Fund scam I. Issues on Problems: The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam‚ also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam‚ is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF‚ popularly called "pork barrel")‚ a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development projects of the Philippine government‚ mostly
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of the Aquino Administration should not be implemented because it does not contribute in the GDP and economic growth of the country‚ although it may have been partially successful‚ its rediscovery has drawn reaction as “Unlawful”‚ aside from being unconstitutional‚ it does not serve‚ neither its spending was translated to over-all increase of jobs‚ nor trigger a downturn in poverty incidence. II. Background The Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is a stimulus package under the Aquino administration
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NEDA was established in 1973 with Dr. Gerardo Sicat as its first director general. With the exception of Sicat‚ the Prime Minister of the Philippines was usually the head of the agency before the First People Power Revolution. President Corazon C. Aquino re-organized the NEDA into its present form (see below) and appointed Winnie Monsod as its first director-general after EDSA I List of NEDA Director-Generals Name | Term Began | Term Ended | President | Third Republic of the Philippines |
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The Aquino Administration at the mid of its term: assessment of its policies and achievements in key areas May 27‚ 2013 at 7:57pm by Dr. Peter Koeppinger Manila‚ May 17‚ 2013 Resident Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation The Aquino Administration at the mid of its term: assessment of its policies and achievements in key areas When Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino was elected in May 2010‚ it was a huge wave of hope
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Ferdinand E. Marcos Burial at the Heroes’ Cemetery after 22 years A Proposal Presented to The faculty of Undergraduate School Western Leyte College Ormoc City In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements of English 24 by GENEN LLENA MARIE M. SAYRE May 20‚ 2011 ABSTRACT Title: Ferdinand E. Marcos Burial at the Heroes’ Cemetery after 22 years Author: Genen Llena Marie M. Sayre Subject: Business Technical Writing School: Western Leyte College Adviser: Prof. Carmelita
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The Philippines is located in the southeastern portion of Asia. Her neighbor on the north is the Republic of China (Taiwan or Formosa)‚ while on the west is Communist Vietnam. Further west is Thailand. Immediately to the south of the Philippines is Indonesia and to the southwest are Malaysia and Singapore. The Philippines is separated from her nearby Asian neighbors by several bodies of water. They are the Pacific Ocean on the east‚ the South China Sea on the north and west‚ and the Celebes Sea
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The Political Economy of Corruption: A Philippine Illustrationa James Roumasset b Department of Economics‚ University of Hawai’i at M noa & University of Hawai’i Economic Research Organization Working Paper No. 08-05 October 27‚ 2008 Abstract This essay explores the nature‚ causes‚ and consequences of corruption as it pertains to entire regimes. Grand corruption is modeled as a type of unproductive rent-seeking at the highest levels of government. The economic costs of corruption are assumed
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