http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/Philippine-Travel-blog.html Philippines Travel Blog en-us Philippine Travel Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:31 GMT Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:31 GMT a1-philippine-travel-asia.com This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/qnY3snwgY58/manila-ocean-park.html Manila Ocean Park is basically an oceanarium, a mall, a hotel Hotel H20 soon to open, as well as an Open Marine Habitat rolled into one fun destination. Of course, the main feature being the world class oceanarium. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:58:15 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/manila-ocean-park.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/eXRlcJ_f5X4/rizal-park.html Rizal Park Manila includes a variety of activities that can cater to the interest of different individuals. You can choose to take one whole tour of it, which is done from 9:00 am- 5:00 pm, during Wednesday to Sunday. You can also opt to see each site individually. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:57:19 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/rizal-park.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/cPBkAr9aaMc/index.html Everything you want to know about Philippine Travel and a very personal tourism guide for hotels, destinations, scuba diving, beach vacations, mountain climbing, whitewater adventure, hiking and trekking, heritage trails, ecotourism, exciting festivals, etc. Thu, 28 May 2009 02:34:34 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/index.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/HfXGRV-iEME/philippine-food.html Philippine food - Part of the thrill that accompanies exploring the nooks and crannies of the Philippine metropolis is the vast array of Philippine food items that catches one's eye. Sun, 10 May 2009 04:00:57 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippine-food.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/HXddn-RYEOM/philippines-lowlands.html Although lowland Christians maintained stylistic differences in dress until the twentieth century and had always taken pride in their unique culinary specialties, they continued to be a remarkably homogeneous core population of the Philippines. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:15:49 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-lowlands.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/OQPmdlJDa1s/philippines-local-government.html The 1987 Constitution retains the three-tiered structure of local government. There were seventy-three provinces in 1991. The province was the largest local administrative unit, headed by the elected governor and aided by a vice governor, also elected. Other officials were appointed to head offices concerned with finance, tax collection, audit, public works, agricultural services, health, and schools. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:15:19 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-local-government.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/OEfPDsiC1OQ/philippines-livestock.html Philippines Livestock In 1990 the livestock industry, consisting primarily of cattle, carabao (water buffalo), hogs, and chickens, accounted for almost 20 percent of value added in the agricultural sector, up from 12 percent in 1980. Much of the growth came from the rapid expansion of poultry raising, which had begun to develop as a commercial industry in the 1960s. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:14:53 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-livestock.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/fIyIhZdeOxI/philippines-leadership.html The policy of attraction ensured the success of what colonial administrators called the political education of the Filipinos. It was, however, also the cause of its greatest failure. Osmea and Quezon, as the acknowledged representatives, were not genuinely interested in social reform, and serious problems involving land ownership, tenancy, and the highly unequal distribution of wealth were largely ignored. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:14:27 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-leadership.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/qaiFITBhNfs/philippines-language.html Some eleven languages and eighty-seven dialects were spoken in the Philippines in the late 1980s. Eight of these--Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Waray-Waray, Pampangan, and Pangasinan--were native tongues for about 90 percent of the population. All eight belong to the Malay-Polynesian language family and are related to Indonesian and Malay, but no two are mutually comprehensible. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:13:58 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-language.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/5Nd8s2HCr00/philippines-land-tenancy.html An important legacy of the Spanish colonial period was the high concentration of land ownership, and the consequent widespread poverty and agrarian unrest. United States administrators and several Philippine presidential administrations launched land reform programs to maintain social stability in the countryside. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:13:32 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-land-tenancy.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/YKFPByKoEc0/philippines-katipunan.html The Katipunan, like the Masonic lodges, had secret passwords and ceremonies, and its members were organized into ranks or degrees, each having different colored hoods, special passwords, and secret formulas. New members went through a rigorous initiation Sat, 09 May 2009 15:12:59 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-katipunan.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/_m8oF8D4WpE/philippines-jose-rizal.html Propaganda Movement languished after Jose Rizal arrest and the collapse of the Liga Filipina; a plebeian constituency that wanted revolution and national independence. Because the Spanish refused to allow genuine reform, the initiative quickly passed from the former group to the latter. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:12:32 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-jose-rizal.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/t8nVqBYnbRA/philippines-jones-act.html The Jones Act remained the basic legislation for the administration of the Philippines until the United States Congress passed new legislation in 1934 which became effective in 1935, establishing the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:11:59 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-jones-act.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/xtMBlhnWlTY/philippines-islam.html In the early 1990s, Filipino Muslims were firmly rooted in their Islamic faith. Every year many went on the hajj (pilgrimage) to the holy city of Mecca; on return men would be addressed by the honoritic Sat, 09 May 2009 15:11:31 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-islam.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/HP0ONrQMllo/philippines-int-eco-relations.html Philippines International Economic Relations At independence in 1946, the Philippines was an agricultural nation tied closely to its erstwhile colonizer, the United States. This was most clearly observed in trade relations between the two countries. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:11:03 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-int-eco-relations.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/QmHi8a5JvAY/philippines-industry.html Immediately after independence, the government concentrated its efforts on reconstructing and rehabilitating the war-damaged economy. In 1949 import and foreign exchange controls were imposed to alleviate a balance of payments problem. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:10:34 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-industry.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/KdJcHHi1z5Y/philippines-independence.html Demoralized by the war and suffering rampant inflation and shortages of food and other goods, the Philippine people prepared for the transition to independence, which was scheduled for July 4, 1946. A number of issues remained unresolved, principally those concerned with trade and security arrangements between the islands and the United States. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:09:55 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-independence.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/68RAECP3_1k/philippines-huk-rebellion.html Philippines Huk Rebellion - the murder of PKM leader Juan Feleo in August 1946, provoked the Huk veterans to dig up their weapons and incite a rebellion in the Central Luzon provinces. The name of the HUK movement was changed from the People's Anti-Japanese Army to the People's Liberation Army - Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan Sat, 09 May 2009 15:09:29 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-huk-rebellion.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/i6rhqUYLLlg/philippines-health.html The struggle against disease has progressed considerably over the years. Health conditions in the Philippines in 1990 approximated to those in other Southeast Asian countries but lagged behind those in the West. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:09:01 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-health.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/TyE84NEhIjA/philippines-green-revolution.html Philippines Rice is the most important food crop, a staple food in most of the country. It is produced extensively in Luzon, the Western Visayas, Southern Mindanao, and Central Mindanao. Sat, 09 May 2009 15:08:36 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-green-revolution.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/1hgnyVpCDZs/philippines-magsaysay.html Ramon Magsaysay, a member of Congress from Zambales Province and veteran of a non-Huk guerrilla unit during the war, became secretary of defense in 1950. Sat, 09 May 2009 11:26:56 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-magsaysay.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/iV-g037a3a0/philippines-malolos-constitution.html After returning to the islands, Aguinaldo wasted little time in setting up an independent government. On June 12, 1898, a declaration of independence, modeled on the American one, was proclaimed at his headquarters in Cavite. It was at this time that Apolinario Mabini, a lawyer and political thinker, came to prominence as Aguinaldo's principal adviser. Malolos Constitution Sat, 09 May 2009 11:26:29 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-malolos-constitution.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/6cxUPvooH0g/philippines-marcos.html Marcos dominated the political scene for the next two decades, first as an elected president in 1965 and 1969, and then as a virtual dictator after his 1972 proclamation of martial law. Marcos and the Road to Martial Law Sat, 09 May 2009 11:26:02 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-marcos.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/fVVSYOR-Eo4/philippines-marial-law-aftermath.html Philippines Martial Law and its Aftermath It was in this environment in August 1983 that President Marcos's foremost critic, former Senator Benigno Aquino, returned from exile and was assassinated. The country was thrown into an economic and political crisis that resulted eventually, in February 1986, in the ending of Marcos's twenty-one-year rule and his flight from the Philippines. Sat, 09 May 2009 11:25:28 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-marial-law-aftermath.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/Lm3KiRwQcTA/philippines-martial-law.html On September 21, 1972, Marcos issued Proclamation 1081, declaring martial law over the entire country. Under the president's command, the military arrested opposition figures, including Benigno Aquino, journalists, student and labor activists, and criminal elements. Sat, 09 May 2009 11:24:55 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-martial-law.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/9ahbT69TgyA/philippines-media.html The Constitution guarantees freedom of the press and also provides free access to records, documents, and papers pertaining to official acts. Government officials, however, tended to be leery of reporters, who sometimes ran stories gathered from a single source or based on hearsay. Sat, 09 May 2009 11:24:21 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-media.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/dfZqw7NrbSs/philippines-mining.html Philippines Mining The 1980s were difficult for mining in the Philippines. In 1990 the mining and quarrying sector contributed 1.5 percent of GNP, approximately half the percentage it had accounted for ten years earlier. Sat, 09 May 2009 11:23:53 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-mining.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/qpIl2s2H8CU/philippines-muslims.html Muslims, about 5 percent of the total population, were the most significant minority in the Philippines. Although undifferentiated racially from other Filipinos, in the 1990s they remained outside the mainstream of national life, set apart by their religion and way of life. Sat, 09 May 2009 11:23:24 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-muslims.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/jYuaSUeZOAA/philippines-gov-structure.html Philippines Government Structure In 1991 the government was led by President Corazon C. Aquino, who was head of state, chief executive, and commander in chief of the armed forces. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:51:20 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-gov-structure.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/haSSe--CgQw/philippines-friars.html The power of religious orders remained one of the great constants, over the centuries, of Spanish colonial rule. Even in the late nineteenth century, the friars of the Augustinian, Dominican, and Franciscan orders conducted many of the executive and control functions of government on the local level. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:48:49 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-friars.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/Ubahn79ZSUs/philippines-forestry.html Actual forested land was estimated to be about 6.5 million hectares--more than 21.5 percent of Philippine territory--and much of that was in higher elevations and on steep slopes. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:48:19 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-forestry.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/5MwIWA0UPY8/philippines-foreign-investment.html Philippines Foreign Investment Foreign participation in the Philippine economy was a controversial issue throughout much of the twentieth century. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:47:46 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-foreign-investment.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/zO7uKRcTYs0/philippines-foreign-affairs.html Philippine foreign policy in the early 1990s was broadly prodemocratic and pro-Western in orientation. Philippine international prestige was at an all-time high when Marcos was overthrown Sat, 09 May 2009 06:47:20 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-foreign-affairs.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/ZkgM0XKURc8/philippines-fishing.html The Philippines is surrounded by a vast aquatic resource base. In 1976 the government adopted a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone covering some 2.2 million square kilometers. However, the country's traditional fishing grounds constituted a relatively small 126,500-squarekilometer area. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:46:48 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-fishing.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/UPvW-_3SVyw/philippines-ferdinand-marcos.html Marcos inflicted immeasurable damage on democratic values. He offered the Filipino people economic progress and national dignity, but the results were dictatorship, poverty, militarized politics and a politicized military, and greatly increased dependence on foreign governments and banks. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:43:30 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-ferdinand-marcos.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/oLh024k-CDs/philippines-ethnicity.html Philippines Ethnic Identities - Philippine society was relatively homogeneous in 1990, especially considering its distribution over some 1,000 inhabited islands. Muslims and upland tribal peoples were obvious exceptions, but approximately 90 percent of the society remained united by a common cultural and religious background. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:42:30 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-ethnicity.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/3y9Ql6abEtY/philippines-energy.html Philippines Energy Economists estimated that to achieve a 5.6 percent growth rate in real GNP, the country would need an additional 300 megawatts of generating capacity yearly. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:40:38 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-energy.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/V4gtsvGZwzM/philippines-employment.html Philippines Labor and Employment A high rate of population growth, lack of access to land, insufficient job creation in industry, and a history of inappropriate economic policies contributed to high unemployment and underemployment and a relatively high proportion of the labor force being in low-productivity, service sector jobs in the late 1980s. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:40:11 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-employment.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/ZmYkCsZifIk/philippines-elections.html Philippines Voting and Elections are the arena in which the countrys elite families compete for political power. The wealthiest clans contest national and provincial offices. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:39:34 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-elections.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/OxpgnrTaiwQ/philippines-education.html Philippines Education System - Filipinos have a deep regard for education, which they view as a primary avenue for upward social and economic mobility. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:39:01 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-education.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/dzSpR1ME0LY/philippines-ecumenical.html Philippines Ecumenical Developments did not eliminate competition and gained far more hold among older Protestant churches than among groups that had entered the Philippines more recently, the trend had significantly moderated religious tensions. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:38:22 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-ecumenical.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/Svs_69WWodE/philippines-economic-planning.html The Philippines has traditionally had a private enterprise economy both in policy and in practice. The government intervened primarily through fiscal and monetary policy and in the exercise of its regulatory authority. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:37:53 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-economic-planning.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/qbnnXqU7OwU/philippines-early-spanish.html The first recorded sighting of the Philippines by Europeans was on March 16, 1521, during Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:37:23 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-early-spanish.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/6lQuHaevz2c/philippines-early-history.html Philippines Early History - Negrito, proto-Malay, and Malay peoples were the principal peoples of the Philippine archipelago. The Negritos are believed to have migrated by land bridges some 30,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:36:54 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-early-history.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/QJoXHMGLt3g/philippines-developments.html Economic and Social Developments The Taft Commission, appointed in 1900, viewed economic development, along with education and the establishment of representative institutions, as one of the three pillars of the United States program of tutelage. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:36:09 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-developments.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/syobA2D6izI/philippines-corazon-aquino.html Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, universally and affectionately known as Cory, was a Philippine president quite unlike those who preceded her. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:30:10 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-corazon-aquino.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/cu3zYBlolDI/philippines-commonwealth.html Tydings-McDuffie Act provided for a ten-year transition period to independence, during which the Commonwealth of the Philippines would be established, Philippines Commonwealth, Commonwealth Politics, 1935-41, Osmea and Manuel Roxas Sat, 09 May 2009 06:29:24 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-commonwealth.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/RvbkUC-3t2Y/philippines-climate.html Philippines Climate- a tropical marine climate dominated by a rainy season and a dry season. The summer monsoon brings heavy rains to most of the archipelago from May to October, whereas the winter monsoon brings cooler and drier air from December to February. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:28:46 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-climate.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/fWDTYBe3klM/philippines-civil-military.html Philippines Civil-Military Relations The Philippines had an unbroken tradition of civilian control of the military until martial law was imposed in 1972. Sat, 09 May 2009 06:28:12 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-civil-military.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/A1PhilippineTravel/~3/VGBognCC2IQ/philippines-churches.html Philippines Local Christian Churches Iglesia Filipina Independiente and Iglesia ni Kristo Sat, 09 May 2009 06:27:39 GMT http://www.a1-philippine-travel-asia.com/philippines-churches.html