On the Smart wireless system in the Philippines the recipient can use the credit to buy things or get folding currency.
After this success, Chinese diplomats and industrialists are beginning to achieve the same neutral attitude from India, Burma and Philippines the same way.
On economic issues, the Philippines is the recipient of a Millennium Challenge grant that is helping to foster greater development and opportunity within the Philippines.
In the Philippines the company boasts Chinese fast-food chain Chow King, Red Ribbon bakeries, Mang Inasal grilled chicken outlets, Greenwich pizza parlors and its U.S. chain Burger King franchises.
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On her return voyage to the Philippines, the Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese submarine torpedoes.
Except for the Philippines, the forces of freedom first found expression in increased economic liberalization.
The Philippines has the highest fertility rate in the region, a whopping 3.23 births per female.
His father studied at the University of the Philippines and the University of Chicago.
Apart from the Catholic Church, all other major religions in the Philippines support the RH Bill.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines wants the government to repeal the 1993 law.
And everybody seemed to be talking about the Philippines as the growth story of 2013.
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In the Philippines, the battle between history and commerce has taken a legal twist.
The conglomerate already operates casinos in New York state, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and the Bahamas.
It is on the Philippines - the place they know best - that they write with real gusto.
Some observers have tended to put the Philippines near the bottom of the heap of wheezing Asian tigers.
In some countries, for example the Philippines and the United States, embalming ahead of open-casket funerals is now quite common.
In the Philippines, the messy impeachment trial of the president (see article) has driven the peso to record lows.
This goes for the U.S.-Japan alliance, and even more so for the alliances with the Philippines and the rest of ASEAN.
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True, the United States Navy under Admiral George Dewey had ousted Spain from the Philippines in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The Philippines is the world's leading exporter of nurses, yet continues to have more nurses per person than Spain or Japan.
"I condemn the killing of Marlina 'Len' Flores-Sumera, which I learnt about during my recent visit to the Philippines" the Director-General said.
These doubts were proven wrong nearly six decades ago, when the Republic of the Philippines became the first democratic nation in Asia.
On June 12, the Philippines marks the first of those 100 years.
Later in the afternoon, the President will welcome President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines to the White House for a bilateral meeting.
In the Philippines, the city of Manila recently awarded contracts to run the city's water and sewerage services to two private consortia.
In the Philippines, the latest in a series of doomed but distracting attempts to impeach the president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is gathering steam.
At the University of the Philippines, the psychology department has begun studying the social impact of having so many families separated for so long.
Various governments had already advised their people not to travel to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines after the bombing in Bali last October.
By injecting Philippine dialects into English dialogue, and switching between the Philippines and the U.S., Nation takes a path familiar to other American immigrant dramas.
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