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The Philippines is an archipelago of about 7,641 islands, [200] [201] covering a total area (including inland bodies of water) of about 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi).
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial law from 1972 until 1981 and kept most of his martial law powers until he was deposed in 1986, branding his rule as "constitutional authoritarianism": 414 ...
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Founding
The Philippine Star was first published seven months after the 1986 People Power Revolution that toppled strongman Ferdinand Marcos and propelled Corazon Aquino to the Philippine presidency. Before its establishment, founders Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal were veteran journalists involved in the "Mosquito Press", a collective name for the different newspapers critical of the Marcos administration that were published after the Martial Law era from 1972 to 1981. At that time, Be...
Early years
The first issue of the newspaper on July 28, 1986, had eight pages, no advertisements and carried the headline, "Wear yellow and die" that featured the death of 23-year-old Stephen Salcedo, a bystander killed by a mob of Marcos loyalists during a rally at Manila's Luneta Park. The masthead of the newspaper carried the motto, "Truth Shall Prevail", reflecting its editorial policy of presenting both sides of the story instead of the prevailing "scoop mentality" of that time.Aside from the main...
Soliven era
With the sudden death of Belmonte due to cancer on January 28, 1994, Soliven assumed chairmanship of the Board of Directors while retaining his position as publisher. He appointed Belmonte's 30-year-old son, Miguel Belmonte, as executive vice president. In the same year, the newspaper made use of the slogan "The only paper you read from cover to cover", in keeping with the new editorial policy of improving every single section of the paper so each can stand on its own even without the main ne...
As early 2009, businessman and PLDT chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan had expressed his interest in acquiring a stake in The Philippine Star in a bid to dominate the multimedia industry. The following year, Pangilinan's MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., the media conglomerate of PLDT, acquired a 20-percent stake in the newspaper, as well as an 18-percent stak...
Entertainment
1. Boy Abunda, television host, publicist, talent manager and celebrity endorser. 2. Joey de Leon, comedian, actor, recording artist and TV presenter. He hosts the noontime variety show Eat Bulaga! now E.A.T. 3. Pepe Diokno, motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
Lifestyle
1. Tim Yap, TV and radio host, newspaper editor, creative director, columnist, club owner and eventologist. 2. Cheryl Tiu, lifestyle columnist and editor-at-large of Lifestyle Asiamagazine. 3. Lucy Torres, actress, model, television host and congressional representative of the 4th District of Leyte. 4. Bianca Gonzalez, lifestyle columnist, TV host and model.
Sports
1. Quinito Henson, sports analyst and TV sports commentator.
Media Ownership Monitor Philippines – Media Companies: A Duopoly rules by VERA Files and Reporters Without BordersMedia Ownership Monitor Philippines – Print by VERA Files and Reporters Without BordersA lockdown ( / ˈlɒkˌdaʊn / ⓘ) is a restriction policy for people, community or a country to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks (such as COVID-19) that could possibly harm the people if they move and interact freely. The term is used for a prison protocol that usually prevents people, information or objects from leaving an area.
The Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, While the BVI is actually “The Virgin Islands”, the name is often used to refer to the entire group of Islands, with the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rico Trench and St. Croix being a displaced part of ...
Philippine Spanish (Spanish: español filipino or castellano filipino)[4] is the dialect of standard Spanish used in the Philippines, spoken primarily by Spanish Filipinos. Spanish as spoken in the Philippines contains a number of features that distinguishes it from other varieties of Spanish, combining features from both Peninsular and Latin ...