Western media have vehemently hyped up the South China Sea arbitration initiated by the Philippines recently for the purpose of endorsing the arbitration and creating the false impression in the international community that China "...
History of the Philippines People first reached the Philippines about 30,000 years ago, when the first people immigrated from Sumatra and Borneo via boats or land-bridges. They were followed by an influx from Malaysia. More recent immigrants include Chinese beginning in the ninth century CE and ...
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Infoplease has everything you need to know about Philippines. Check out our country profile, full of essential information about Philippines's geography, history, government, economy, population, culture, religion and languages. If that's not enough, click over to our collection of world maps and...
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Over 400 years of colonial history are still visible in the architecture and some of the Portuguese culture can still be experienced: such as Portuguese food, street names, casinos. 5. Macao is the most densely populated region in the world and about 700,000 people live in area that is abo...
History: Earliest inhabitants were hunter-gatherers. Bantu tribes settle in the region about 500 BC. Already in 1414 Chinese trader Zheng He visited the region. Later European explorers and Arab traders visited and settled mainly in the coastal regions around Mombasa, which is Kenya's oldest city...
In 1975, the Khmer Rouge regime seized power; they would murder approximately 1/5 of their own citizens in a mad frenzy of violence. Yet not all of Cambodian history is dark and blood-drenched. Between the 9th and 13th centuries, Cambodia was home to the Khmer Empire, which left behind...
The primary countries of origin for immigrants in Maryland were El Salvador (11%), India (6%), China (5%), Nigeria (5%), and the Philippines (4%). Additionally, 760,379 people in Maryland (13% of the state's population) were native-born Americans with at least one immigrant parent ...
1990 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow 1991 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1992 The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Mark E. Neely, Jr. 1993 The Radicalism of the American Revo...