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Philippine poetry in English
Philippine poetry in English is poetry written by Filipinos in English, begun in the early 1900s after the United States made English the medium of instruction.
Philippine resistance against Japan
Philippine resistance against Japan: the 1942-1945 Filipino and American guerrilla campaign, also called the Philippine guerrilla movement, fought the Japanese occupation under USAFFE and MacArthur's SWPA; about 250,000 guerrillas aided the 1944-1945 liberation.
Philippine revolts against Spain
The Philippine revolts against Spain were more than 200 uprisings by Filipinos against Spanish colonial rule between 1565 and 1898, driven by tribute, forced labor, and religious persecution.
Philippine Revolution
Philippine Revolution (1896-1898), also called the Tagalog War: armed Filipino uprising against Spanish rule begun when Spain discovered the Katipunan society; led by Bonifacio then Aguinaldo, ending in the June 12, 1898 Kawit independence declaration and U.S. cession via the Treaty of Paris.
Philippine Rice Research Institute
Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), DA-attached government corporate entity created by EO 1061 in 1985, headquartered in Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija; develops rice varieties and leads RCEF seed distribution to millions of farmers.
Philippine Science High School Central Luzon Campus
Philippine Science High School Central Luzon Campus (PSHS-CLC), opened June 28, 2009 as the 11th PSHS campus, is a DOST-run STEM school in Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, admitting Grade 7 scholars via the NCE with 120 slots.
Philippine Science High School Main Campus
Philippine Science High School Main Campus (Pisay) is the flagship Diliman, Quezon City campus of the DOST-attached PSHS System, created by RA 3661 in 1963, tuition-free, entered via the NCE by its top 240 qualifiers.
Philippine Science High School System
Philippine Science High School System (PSHS): DOST-attached Philippine system of selective, free-scholarship STEM secondary schools, created by RA 3661 (1963) and RA 8496 (1998), now governed by RA 12310 (2025) with 16 campuses.
Philippine Sea
The Philippine Sea is the world's largest marginal sea, about 5 million km², east of the Philippine archipelago in the western Pacific. Its floor is the Philippine Sea Plate, ringed by subduction zones and the source region of many typhoons.
Philippine Sea Plate
The Philippine Sea Plate is a small, mostly submerged oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Philippine Sea between Japan, the Mariana Islands, Indonesia, and the Philippines, bounded almost entirely by subduction zones.
Philippine short story in English
The Philippine short story in English is the body of short fiction by Filipino writers, begun under American rule and the genre they most consistently excelled in.
Philippine Standard Time
Philippine Standard Time, also called Philippine Time (Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas), is the official time of the Philippines, fixed at UTC+08:00 year-round and maintained by the government agency PAGASA.
Philippine Statistics Authority
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is the central statistical agency of the Philippines, created in 2013 to merge four statistical agencies; it conducts national censuses, civil registration, and the PhilSys identification system.
Philippine Stock Exchange
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) is the only stock exchange operating the Philippine equities market, created in 1992 by merging the Manila and Makati Stock Exchanges.
Philippine tarsier
Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta, mawumag, magô), a small nocturnal primate endemic to Bohol, Samar, Leyte, Mindanao and nearby islands; Near Threatened, legally specially protected since 1997, with three cryptic genetic lineages.
Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary
Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary, Corella, Bohol: PTFI-DENR conservation forest protecting Carlito syrichta, with free-ranging tarsiers, no-touch no-flash viewing rules, and research-based population monitoring.
Philippine Trench
Philippine Trench, also once called Emden Trench: a 1,571 km subduction trench east of the Philippines where the Philippine Sea plate descends westward; deeper than 10,000 m and a major tsunamigenic zone.
Philippine–American War
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902), also called the Philippine Insurrection, was fought between the United States and Emilio Aguinaldo's Filipino revolutionaries after the Treaty of Paris ceded the Philippines to the US, costing about 4,200 American and over 20,000 Filipino combatant lives.
Philippines
Philippines (Pilipinas), Southeast Asian archipelagic republic of 7,107 islands, capital Manila, population 112.7 million (2024 census). Upper-middle-income since 2025; GDP ~US$462 billion; remittances ~8.5% of GDP; 2016 South China Sea arbitral award; 1987 constitution restored presidential rule.
Philippines at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Philippines at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 12-athlete Team Philippines (Olympedia lists 13) in Rio de Janeiro, August 5–21, 2016. Hidilyn Diaz's weightlifting silver was the only medal, the 10th overall and first since 1996; Ian Lariba was flag bearer.
Philippines at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Philippines at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: 19 athletes, first-ever gold via Hidilyn Diaz (55 kg weightlifting, 224 kg total), plus boxing silvers Petecio and Paalam and Marcial's bronze, four medals, best haul since 1924.
Philippines at the 2026 Asian Games
Philippines at the 2026 Asian Games: the POC delegation of 447 athletes at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, 19 September–4 October 2026, finishing 17th with 29 medals (4-9-16), its best haul since the 1960s, with golds from Yulo, Obiena and Yape.
Philippines at the Olympics
Philippines at the Olympics: Southeast Asia's first Olympic nation, debuting at Paris 1924; NOC recognized 1929; first gold Hidilyn Diaz, Tokyo 2020 weightlifting; Carlos Yulo's two gymnastics golds led the best Games, Paris 2024.
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
The Philippines campaign (1941–1942), also called the Battle or Fall of the Philippines, was Japan's World War II invasion of the Philippine Commonwealth: air strikes on 8 December 1941, landings at Lingayen Gulf, the sieges of Bataan and Corregidor, and Allied surrender by May 1942.
Philippines Free Press
The Philippines Free Press is an English-language news weekly published in Manila since 1907, the oldest in the Philippines and shut down under martial law in 1972.
Philippines in the Eurovision Song Contest Asia
The Philippines' entry to Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026: CARMELLE (Carmelle Collado) performs "Sobra-Sobra", chosen via Philippine Selection Night on 30 August 2026, for the Bangkok final on 14 November.
Philippines LNG Terminal
The Philippines LNG terminals at Batangas City made the Philippines an LNG importer for the first time in 2023, supplying gas-fired power plants on Luzon.
Philippines men's national basketball team
Philippines men's national basketball team, Gilas Pilipinas, run by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas under coach Tim Cone; 2013 FIBA Asia silver, 2023 Asian Games gold, 2024 upset of Latvia.
Philippines national football team
The Philippines men's national football team, the Azkals, governed by the PFF (AFC, FIFA code PHI). Debut AFC Asian Cup 2019; FIFA ranking 135th (July 2026); six World Cup qualifying campaigns; reliant on heritage players.
Philippines v. China
Philippines v. China, PCA Case 2013-19, an Annex VII UNCLOS arbitration filed 22 January 2013; China refused participation; the 12 July 2016 award invalidated the nine-dash line historic-rights claim.