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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).
There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called Chavacano along with some local varieties of Chinese are also spoken in certain communities. . The 1987 constitution designates Filipino, a standardized ...
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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 BordersFerdinand 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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