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February 22, 2011 – December 20, 2011. POEA suspended the deployment of Filipino workers to Libya due to political unrest. In December 2011, workers in the medical and petroleum industry began to be gradually deployed to Libya. The situation in Libya was assessed to have been improved when the Alert Level on Libya was reduced to level 1 from ...
The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), formerly the Philippine Tourism Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaang Pilipino sa Turismo), is an agency of the Philippine national government under the Department of Tourism responsible for implementing policies and programs of the department pertaining to the development, promotion, and supervision of tourism projects in the ...
A Philippine Tourism Commission was created under the unified Trade and Tourism Department to oversee the growth of the tourism industry as a source of economic benefit for the country. In 1973, President Ferdinand Marcos created a new cabinet-level Department of Tourism (DOT) by splitting the Department of Trade and Tourism into two separate ...
The 2013 Lahad Datu standoff, also known as the Lahad Datu incursion or Operation Daulat (Malay: Operasi Daulat), was a military conflict in Lahad Datu, Malaysia. [8] The conflict began on 11 February, when 235 militants [17] arrived in Lahad Datu by boat, and ended on 24 March.
The New People's Army rebellion (often shortened to NPA rebellion, among other acronym-based names) is an ongoing conflict between the government of the Philippines and the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [ 3][ 9] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing communist ...
The Philippines is a typhoon -prone country, with approximately 20 typhoons entering its area of responsibility each year. Locally known generally as bagyo ( [bɐgˈjoʔ] ), [ 3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the West Philippine Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being ...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority ( ARTA[ a]) is a Philippine government agency mandated to ensure ease of business among all agencies of the Philippine government. It was created through Republic Act No. 11032 or the "Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act", which was passed on May 28, 2018.
The Philippine Area of Responsibility. The Philippine Area of Responsibility ( PAR) is an area in the Northwestern Pacific where PAGASA, the Philippines ' national meteorological agency, monitors weather occurrences. Significant weather disturbances, specifically tropical cyclones that enter or develop in the PAR, are given Philippine-specific ...