• The Filipino Veterans Fairness Act is the name of a number of acts that have been introduced to the United States Congress in both the United States House...
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    of Veterans Affairs, which caters to some 18,000 American and Filipino veterans and their widows in the Philippines [1](see also Filipino Veterans Fairness...
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    Veterans" to describe the plight of these Filipino Americans. In 1993, numerous bills titled Filipino Veterans Fairness Act began to be introduced in Congress...
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    overturn Rescission Act of 1946 Filipino Veterans Fairness Act Filipino Americans during World War II Military history of the Philippines during World War...
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    Filipino Americans (Filipino: Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos in North America were first documented in the 16th...
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    Christopher Cabaldon (category American mayors of Filipino descent)
    resolution for the US Conference of Mayors that supported the Filipino Veterans Fairness Act, that was passed unanimously at the annual conference. In June...
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    Philippine Scouts (category Filipino-American history)
    the name Filipino Veterans Fairness Act to rectify this. However, this was a complicated matter as after the liberation of the Philippines members of...
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    Gedeon G. Quijano (category 20th-century Filipino medical doctors)
    and his family now resides in the U.S. Gardeopatra G. Quijano Filipino Veterans Fairness Act Misamis Occidental Oroquieta City Cebuano literature Abueva...
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    000 Filipino combatants", and that "as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians died from violence, famine, and disease". The total number of Filipinos who...
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  • baha". ABS-CBN (in Filipino). July 26, 2024. Retrieved July 26, 2024. "State of calamity idineklara sa Ilocos Norte". ABS-CBN (in Filipino). July 29, 2024...
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  • 2018), Philippine Identification System Act (PDF), Senate of the Philippines, retrieved July 24, 2024 Republic Act No. 11996 (July 24, 2023), Eddie Garcia...
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     'Central Bank of the Philippines'; commonly abbreviated as BSP in both Filipino and English) is the central bank of the Philippines. It was established...
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    there were 4.4 million Filipino Americans, including Multiracial Americans who were part-Filipino living in the US. Filipino Americans constitute the...
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  • ISBN 978-1-351-74248-1. Regis, Marie P. (Fall 2013). Mediating!Global!Filipinos:!The!Filipino!Channel!and!the!Filipino!Diaspora (PDF) (Doctoral dissertation). University...
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    Ramon Magsaysay (category Filipino anti-communists)
    (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a Filipino statesman who served as the seventh President of the Philippines, from December 30, 1953, until his death...
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    they had been betrayed by the lawyers. "Fairness Hearings" were held in five major American cities, where veterans and their families discussed their reactions...
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    -sɔːn, -soʊn/; Filipino: Lungsod Quezon [luŋˈsod ˈkɛson] ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read and pronounced in Filipino as Kyusi), is the...
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    citizens' support in patronizing Filipino products and services, and implemented import and currency controls favorable for Filipino industries. In connection...
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    the surrender of the Bataan-based Filipino American troops. Bataan fell on April 9, 1942, and thousands of Filipino-American servicemen who had defended...
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    UNTV (redirect from UNTV (Philippines))
    marketing through BMPI. UNTV is referred to as "The Kasangbahay Network", a Filipino word which means "household", a group of people, often a family, who live...
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    Balangiga bells (category Articles containing Filipino-language text)
    they shoot any Filipino male above ten years of age who was capable of bearing arms. This was the most widespread killing of Filipino civilians in the...
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    Camarines Norte (category Articles containing Filipino-language text)
    surviving veterans and the sons and daughters of veterans who fell commemorate this event every Dec. 18 in Basud and Daet under the auspices of the Veterans Federation...
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    John Ensign (category Members of the United States Congress of Filipino descent)
    he is one-eighth (1/8) Filipino. As of 2008, Ensign had never met his Philippine-born paternal grandfather, who is of Filipino-German ancestry. Ensign...
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    with a large Filipino immigrant and descendant population. Little Manilas are enclaves of Overseas Filipinos consisting of people of Filipino origin living...
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  • and development in the Philippines. The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, devoted to research on the intellectualization of the Filipino language, is also located...
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    Rob Bonta (category California politicians of Filipino descent)
    and as a member of the Alameda City Council from 2010 to 2012. The first Filipino-American to serve in the California State Legislature, Bonta chaired the...
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    the City of San Pedro (Filipino: Lungsod ng San Pedro), is a 3rd class component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2020 census...
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    Marcelo H. del Pilar (category 19th-century Filipino writers)
    Asociación Hispano-Filipina de Madrid (Hispanic Filipino Association of Madrid), an organization of Filipino and Spanish liberals. On February 17, 1889, del...
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    Gordon authored laws such as the Filipino World War II Veterans Pensions and Benefits Act, the National Tourism Policy Act, the Free Patent Law, and the...
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    budget proposal the singled out veterans' benefits for cuts. She has offered and cosponsored legislation to give veterans access to cutting edge prosthetics...
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