Intervention and Philippine Independence By: Ha Z Dignadice Eulimay Gillang The Spanish-American War of 1898 • Cuba ‚ Spanish Colony in the West Indies‚ revolted against its colonial master sometime in February‚ 1895. • Governor-General Valeriano Weyler commander of the Spanish Forces in Cuba. • American businessmen had huge investments in the sugar industry in Cuba. • President William McKinley sent the US battleship Maine to Cuba for the purpose of evacuating American citizens in case revolution worsened
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based on the quantity produced. It is not a function of the value of the product being taxed. Cigarettes are a product being taxed in such category. The use of specific tax could have been a good idea since it is evident that even though the Philippines is a small country‚ it is the 12th largest in the cigarette industry with an annual volume of around 85 billion sticks of cigarettes. At P1.00 per stick‚ it could easily translate to P85 billion tax revenue and yet we had only collected a mere P27
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The Republic of the Philippines’ textile industry was established in the 1950s under the principle of import substitution industrialization‚ which promotes producing goods domestically rather than importing them from other countries. The textile industry comprises fiber production and the manufacturing of yarn‚ fabric and textile end-products. It consists of two sectors: the primary processing sector‚ comprising spinning‚ twisting‚ weaving‚ knitting‚ dyeing and finishing; and the secondary processing
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The historical events in the Philippines History: Return of democracy (1987 to present year) 1987 • In a bid to fully restore the democratic form of government‚ President Corazon Aquino appointed 48 members of the constitutional convention that drafted a new constitution restoring the presidential form of government and abolishing the Batasang Pambansa. The 1987 Constitution replaced the 1973 Constitution which was amended twice in 1981 and 1984. • The Reform the AFP Movement (RAM) led by Gregorio
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On bilateral trade‚ Malaysia and the Philippines have enjoyed many years of beneficial economic and expanding trade relations. Total bilateral trade have increased from USD 3.38 billion in 2009 to USD 6.62 billion in 2010. Also‚ as Philippines’ close neighbour and fellow member of ASEAN‚ Malaysia has been actively engaged in the on-going efforts to bring peace to the Southern Philippines‚ in consultation with the Philippines Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as well as other
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Archaeological evidence suggests that the Philippines may have beeninhabited many thousands of years before then‚ but that can’t be stated with certainty.The oldest human fossil found so far is 22‚000 years old.) Little is known of the earlyhuman settlement of the Philippines. Scientific evidence remains inconclusive. There ismuch written on the Austronesian peoples of the Southeast Asia area and their descendants. These peoples were the seafaring people who traveled to distant parts of the world
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Civil Liberties (And how they differ from civil rights) "If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands‚ they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored‚ we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance‚ we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation." Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ 1938 (Isaacs 66) Freedom of speech
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Philippines Economy: Booming‚ But Poverty and Unemployment Remain Problematic Shortly after my piece on the Philippines’ continuing structural economic vulnerabilities‚ which generated considerable controversy and heated discussions among experts and observers alike‚ the country’s stock markets managed to record new historic highs — breaching the 7‚000 mark and beyond. Meanwhile‚ Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services‚ following in the footsteps of Fitch Ratings‚ has just awarded the Philippines
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December 2009 Civil Right and Civil Liberties Civil liberties and civil rights are fundamental for everyday living. In today’s society both of these terms have different prospective; civil rights are considered to be natural rights. In other words‚ civil rights means that people have the right to be treated the same regardless of their race‚ gender‚ or religion. Even thought civil rights are guaranteed by law‚ this prospective took many years to be achieved. For example‚ after the Civil War African
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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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