PRESIDENTS OF THE PHILIPINES

Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu Lapu-Lapu City is a first class and a highly urbanized city in the province of Cebu. It occupies most of the Mactan Island, and also covers the Olango Island group and a few islets. The city is also part of the Cebu Metropolitan Area. The city is joined to Mandaue City on mainland Cebu by the Mactan-Mandaue Bridge and Marcelo Fernan Bridge. Mactan-Cebu International Airport, the second busiest airport in the Philippines, is located at Lapu-Lapu City. History   History has it that Mactan Island although small was a thriving community when the great Magellan was in Cebu. The brave Spanish navigator and soldier, upon learning that some inhabitants on this tiny island across Cebu refused to recognize the King of Spain, burned one of the villages. Lapu-Lapu was one of the native leaders who refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of Spain over the Islands. When Magellan, with three boatloads of Spaniards and twenty boatloads of Cebuanos, went to Mactan to help a frie...

The Willow Project has been approved. Here's what to know about the controversial oil-drilling venture By Ella Nilsen, CNN Updated 3:46 PM EDT, Tue March 14, 2023 (CNN) On March 13, the  Biden administration approved  the  controversial Willow Project in Alaska . ConocoPhillips' massive Willow oil drilling project on Alaska's North Slope moved through the administration's  approval process for months , galvanizing a  sudden uprising of online activism  against it, including more than one million letters written to the White House in protest of the project and a  Change.org petition  more than 3 million signatures.

Emilio Aguinaldo  became the inaugural president of the Philippines under the Malolos Republic, considered the  First Philippine Republic . [7] [note 2]  He held that office until 1901 when he was captured by United States forces during the  Philippine–American War  (1899–1902). [4]  The American  colonization of the Philippines  abolished the First Republic, [12]  which led to an American  governor-general  exercising executive power. [19] In 1935, the  United States , pursuant to its promise of full  Philippine sovereignty , [20]  established the  Commonwealth of the Philippines  following the ratification of the  1935 Constitution , which also restored the presidency. The  first national presidential election  was held, [note 3]  and  Manuel L. Quezon  (1935–44) was elected to a six-year term, with no provision for re-election, [5]  as the second Philippine president and...