And in the Philippines, more than two hundred thousand people are still living in shelters after severe storms last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

One hip-hop artist, Francis Durango Magalona, also known as FrancisM, made this music even more popular in the Philippines.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

"And one night." said McKinley, "It came to me this way: "That we could not give the Philippines back to Spain.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

And he said Spain must recognize the right of the United States to occupy Manila in the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

At the beginning of the talks, the United States was not sure if it wanted all or only part of the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Farmers in the Philippines are showing new interest in crops like winged beans,string beans, arrowroot and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

However,the people of the Philippines built a statue to honor him for keeping his promise to return.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

And the medicines for a cobra bite in the Philippines may not work for someone bitten by a similar snake in West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

Douglas MacArthur began his service in the Army by traveling to several Asian countries including Japan,and to the Philippines, then an American territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

President McKinley, without waiting for the Senate to act, ordered the American military government in Manila to extend its control throughout the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The project involves the world's largest rice collection, the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

If war broke out,it said, he was to attack the Spanish naval force in the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Then -- if he was elected president -- the Democrats could give the Philippines their independence.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

President Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the Philippines to command American forces in the South Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

American occupation of the Philippines made the United States a major power in the Far East.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The rebellion in the Philippines became a major issue in America's presidential election of nineteen hundred.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

William Jennings Bryan, the leader of the Democratic Party, opposed the take-over of the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In nineteen forty-four, he returned to the Philippines with an army that defeated the Japanese.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

News of the rebel attack caused some Senators to change their minds about the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

And,with the Philippines, that power is -- and forever will be - the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Finally,they reached an agreement. Spain would give all of the Philippines to the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The future of the Philippines,he said, would be decided during negotiations on a peace treaty.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

This is partly the result of adding Pakistan and the Philippines to the latest report.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

He said that taking over the Philippines would be a dangerous break with America's past.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

General MacArthur finally agreed to leave for Australia before the Philippines surrendered to Japan.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

He believed that the Philippines' takeover would cause the United States nothing but trouble.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Then he decided that the United States should demand all of the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In the Philippines, people started listening to it in the early nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Two days before the vote was taken, violence broke out in the Philippines.

VOA: special.2010.07.22