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In 2013, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) estimated that approximately 10.2 million people of Filipino descent lived or worked abroad. [12] This number constitutes about 11 percent of the total population of the Philippines. [21] It is one of the largest diaspora populations, spanning over 100 countries. [22]
The most widely known theory of the prehistoric peopling of the Philippines is that of H. Otley Beyer, founder of the Anthropology Department of the University of the Philippines. Heading that department for 40 years, Professor Beyer became the unquestioned expert on Philippine prehistory, exerting early leadership in the field and influencing ...
The program was initially overseen by David Prescott Barrows, the Philippines' director of education at the time. [21] [a] In its first year, 1903, there were twenty thousand applicants, of which about a hundred were selected. [22] Those selected became the first pensionados, students who were accepted by this scholarship program. [29]
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700,000 of the world's mariners come from the Philippines, being the world's largest origin of seafarers; [11] In 2018, Filipino seafarers sent home the equivalent of US$6.14 billion. [ 12 ] Then-President Rodrigo Duterte announced that in 2021, the Philippines would limit the annual number of health professionals (including nurses) it sends ...
When the Philippines faced off against Switzerland in the New Zealand city of Dunedin on Friday, they became the first team of any gender from the Southeast Asian nation to play at a World Cup.
Epifanio San Juan Jr., also known as E. San Juan Jr. (born December 29, 1938, in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines), [1] is a known Filipino American literary academic, Tagalog writer, Filipino poet, civic intellectual, activist, writer, essayist, video/film maker, editor, and poet whose works related to the Filipino Diaspora in English and Filipino writings have been translated into German ...