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On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 7 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
Website. malacanang .gov .ph. op-proper .gov .ph. Malacañang Palace ( Filipino: Palasyo ng Malakanyang, locally [paˈlɐ̞ʃo näŋ maläkɐˈɲäŋ]; Spanish: Palacio de Malacañán ), officially known as Malacañan Palace, is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the Philippines. It is located in the Manila ...
The EDSA Revolution Anniversary is a special public holiday in the Philippines. Since 2002, the holiday has been declared a special non-working holiday. [110] [111] However, it was not included in the list of holidays in 2024 declared by President Bongbong Marcos in his proclamation, citing that it "falls on a Sunday," [112] which is considered ...
Women in the pre-colonial Philippines enjoyed nearly equal status with men. Prior to colonization, both men and women could get a divorce for the following reasons: failure to meet family obligations, childlessness, and infidelity. Children, regardless of gender, and properties were equally divided in a divorce.
National Museum of the Philippines – Cebu ( Cebuano: Nasudnong Museyo sa Pilipinas – Sugbo; Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas – Cebu) is a museum in Cebu City, Philippines under the National Museum of the Philippines system. Hosted at the Aduana (Customs) building, the museum building was known as Malacañang sa Sugbo (English ...
Goldenberg Mansion. / 14.5917°N 120.9894°E / 14.5917; 120.9894. The Goldenberg Mansion is a historic residence built in the 1870s by the Eugsters, a Spanish merchant family. Later, it was revamped in a Moorish Revival style by Jose Moreno Lacalle, a Spanish colonial official and writer, using materials such as Philippine hardwood, pre ...
Ferdinand Marcos appointed Imelda to the position of Minister of Human Settlements in 1976 [96] —a post which she held until the EDSA Revolution of February 1986, [96] and which allowed her to construct the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Philippine Heart Center, the Lung Center of the Philippines, the Philippine International ...
The women's suffrage movement in the Philippines was one of the first, major occasions on which women grouped together politically. It was also one of the first women's rights movements, and endeavored to attain the right for women to vote and run for office. Many Filipino men were opposed to the idea, and held fast to the traditional view that ...