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People Watching (Sam Fender song)
People Watching is a 2024 song by Sam Fender, released as the lead single from his third album. It peaked at Number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
People Watching Tour
The People Watching Tour was the third concert tour by Sam Fender, supporting his 2025 album. The tour included sold-out UK arena dates and a stadium finale in London.
People We Meet on Vacation (film)
People We Meet on Vacation is a 2026 Netflix romantic comedy directed by Brett Haley, adapting Emily Henry's 2021 novel. Emily Bader and Tom Blyth star as friends-to-lovers Poppy and Alex; released January 9, 2026, it topped Netflix's English film list with 17.2 million first-week views.
People-first language
People-first language (person-first language) places the person before the disability, e.g. "person with epilepsy"; contrasted with identity-first language ("disabled person"), it is used by the CRPD and CDC, though surveys show mixed preferences among disabled people.
People, Years, Life
People, Years, Life (Lyudi, gody, zhizn) is a memoir cycle by Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg, serialized in Novy Mir from 1960 to 1965 and widely influential among 1960s readers.
People's Action Party
People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore's ruling party founded 21 November 1954 by Lee Kuan Yew and 13 others; in power since 1959, won every election since 1965, led since 2024 by Lawrence Wong.
People's Alliance for Democracy
The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) was a Thai protest movement whose yellow-shirted supporters campaigned against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from 2005 and seized Bangkok's airports in 2008.
People's Armed Police (中国人民武装警察部队)
People's Armed Police (中国人民武装警察部队), PAP: China's paramilitary force, one of three armed-force components with the PLA and militia. Since 2018 under direct CMC command; comprises internal security, mobile, and coast guard forces.
People's Army of Vietnam
The People's Army of Vietnam, also known as the North Vietnamese Army, is the national army of Vietnam, founded under Ho Chi Minh's directive in 1944.
People's Assembly (Burma)
The People's Assembly, or Pyithu Hluttaw, was the legislature of Burma's one-party socialist state under the 1974 Constitution, dissolved after the military coup of 18 September 1988.
People's Association
The People's Association is a Singapore statutory board created on 1 July 1960 to foster racial harmony and social cohesion through grassroots activities and community clubs.
People's Bank of China (中国人民银行)
The People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) is the central bank of the People's Republic of China, which sets monetary policy and maintains financial stability under the State Council.
People's Choice Awards
People's Choice Awards: American fan-voted entertainment awards created by Bob Stivers, first held 1975 on CBS; Gallup polls until 2005, then online voting; owned by E! since 2017; last ceremony February 2024, returning in 2027.
People's Commissariat of Food Supply
The People's Commissariat of Food Supply (Наркомпрод, Narkomprod) was the food-supply agency of Soviet Russia, running grain requisitioning and rationing during the Civil War until its liquidation in 1924.
People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry
The People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Народный комиссариат тяжёлой промышленности, NKTP) was the Soviet department directing heavy industry, created in 1932 and split up in 1939.
People's commune (人民公社)
The people's commune (人民公社) was China's rural collective institution from 1958 to the early 1980s, combining farming, local government, and social services, established during the Great Leap Forward.
People's Consultative Assembly
The People's Consultative Assembly (Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat, MPR) is a state institution of Indonesia whose members come from the elected DPR and DPD, and it amends the 1945 Constitution and inaugurates the president and vice president.
People's Council of Latvia
The People's Council of Latvia (Latvijas Tautas padome) was the country's first provisional legislature, proclaiming independence on 18 November 1918 and serving until the elected Constitutional Assembly replaced it in 1920.
People's Crusade
The People's Crusade, or Peasants' Crusade, was the ill-fated first wave of the First Crusade in 1096, led by Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, marked by Rhineland Jewish massacres and annihilated by Kilij Arslan's Seljuks at Civetot on 21 October 1096.
People's Daily (人民日报)
People's Daily (人民日报), organ of the CCP Central Committee founded 15 June 1948 in Pingshan, Hebei, published in Beijing; China's largest newspaper, with overseas edition (1985), People's Daily Online, Global Times, and a 20-plus-title media group.
People's Defence Force (ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်) (Myanmar)
People's Defence Force (ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်), or PDF, Myanmar: armed wing of the National Unity Government, formed 5 May 2021 after the coup; over 600 guerrilla units fight the junta and are envisaged to become a future federal army.
People's Defense Units
People's Defense Units (YPG, Yekîneyên Parastina Gel), Kurdish militia founded 2004 in Syria, backbone of the SDF and US anti-ISIS partner; dissolved into the Syrian army August 2026.
People's democracy (Marxism–Leninism)
People's democracy (Marxism–Leninism), or new democracy, a Communist state form combining national-democratic and socialist revolution; used for postwar Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and China's people's democratic dictatorship.
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA, Hezb-e Demokratik-e Khalq-e Afghanistan), founded 1 January 1965, was the Marxist-Leninist party that ruled Afghanistan 1978-1992; split into Khalq and Parcham factions 1967-1977, it took power in the April 1978 Saur Revolution and was the government the Soviets invaded to save in December 1979.
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was the socialist state formed September 10, 1987, under the 1987 constitution after thirteen years of Derg military rule, led by Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Workers' Party of Ethiopia, until its overthrow by the EPRDF in May 1991.
People's Dispensary for Sick Animals
PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals), UK veterinary charity founded by Maria Dickin in 1917 in Whitechapel; runs 43 Pet Hospitals giving free and low-cost care to pets of owners on benefits, funded by donations, and awards the Dickin Medal.
People's Fighters Front
The People's Fighters Front (Persian initials JMM) is a coalition of Baluch militants in Iran's southeast claiming at least six attacks on Iranian security forces; distinct from the unrelated Kashmiri PAFF and the Visayan Peoples Front.
People's Front for Democracy and Justice (ህዝባዊ ግንባር ንደሞክራስን ፍትሕን)
People's Front for Democracy and Justice (ህዝባዊ ግንባር ንደሞክራስን ፍትሕን), PFDJ: Eritrea's sole legal party, founded 1994 from the EPLF, led by Isaias Afwerki, controlling the economy via the Hdri Trust Fund and ruling without elections.
People's Government of Kokang
The People's Government of Kokang is the administration of Myanmar's Kokang region run by the MNDAA, founded in 1989, dissolved in 2009, and restored in 2023.
People's Hero (人民英雄)
People's Hero (人民英雄, 1987) is Derek Yee's second Hong Kong crime film, a remake of Dog Day Afternoon, starring Ti Lung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Elaine Jin; it won two Hong Kong Film Awards for supporting acting.