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March 2016. The NTC holds public consultations regarding the migration plan to digital television. It envisions the Philippines to go "fully migrated to digital TV" in three to five years (2019-2021). [68] February 2017. The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) officially started the switchover from Analog to Digital ...
Decommissioned August 2017: Sold to Asia Broadcast Satellite (renamed into ABS-3) Privately owned . First Philippine Satellite launched into space. Diwata-1: Micro: March 23, 2016 Cape Canaveral SLC-41: Atlas V 401: April 27, 2016 ISS: Kibo module: Decommissioned on April 6, 2020 [1] First microsatellite of the Philippines. Maya-1: Cubesat ...
The Bataan Death March [a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [1] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando . The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
The New Bilibid Prison ( NBP) in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila is the main insular prison designed to house the prison population of the Philippines. [2] It is maintained by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) under the Department of Justice (DOJ). As of October 2022, the NBP housed 29,204 inmates, nearly five times its intended capacity of 6,345.
March 15, 2004. ( 2004-03-15) –. present. 24 Oras (pronounced as bente kwatro oras / transl. 24 hours) is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally anchored by Mel Tiangco and Mike Enriquez, it premiered on March 15, 2004, on the network's Telebabad line up, replacing Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco.
Assassination. Percy Lapid was killed on October 3, 2022, at around 8:30 pm ( UTC+8) while he was driving home to BF Resort Village, a gated community in Las Piñas. [ 3] There was a traffic buildup at the subdivision's gate near Aria Street in Barangay Talon 2 because of the routine inspection of all vehicles for a sticker required for entry ...
The satellite is named Multispectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA). [ 2 ] MULA would be the first of a "next-generation satellites" under the Philippine space program, with the team behind the satellite building on the knowledge gained in developing the Diwata and Maya nanosatellites. [ 3 ] The investment cost for the satellite is at least US ...
A map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named.