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An electrical fire razed the Star City amusement park and the adjacent Manila Broadcasting Company building in Pasay. [128] 21-23 May 2023 - The Manila Central Post Office was gutted by a fire that started from a leaking car battery. [129] 31 August 2023 - A fire at a house doubling as a t-shirt factory in Quezon City killed 15. [130]
The post office, circa pre-1930 An aerial view of the post office, 1932 Manila's first post office was established in 1767. During the early years of the American occupation, the Philippine Commission created the Bureau of Posts, which later became the Philippine Postal Corporation , through Act No. 462 issued on September 15, 1902.
This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties ...
Demolished. 2016. Owner. Philippine National Oil Company. The Pandacan Oil Depot was a 33-hectare compound in Pandacan, Manila, Philippines. It housed the storage facilities and distribution terminals of three major players in the country's petroleum industry, namely Caltex (a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation ), Petron, and Shell.
In 1767, the first post office in the Philippines was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain. [4] At first, the postal office served mainly to courier government and church documents. In 1779, the postal district encompassed Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago.
Metro Manila 0 4 Bombings A car bomb exploded outside Manila International Airport, followed by another bomb near a shopping center in Makati. A third bomb was discovered and defused in Makati. [14] 16 February 1988 Manila 0 0 Bombing An bomb detonated outside the Israeli Embassy. [15]
Baybayin ( ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, [ a] Tagalog pronunciation: [bajˈbajɪn]; also formerly known as alibata) is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it was widely used in Luzon and other parts of the Philippines prior to and during the 16th and 17th centuries before ...
Regular USPS mail is not delivered on January 2, 2023. In some circumstances, priority packages will be delivered. If you're expecting something urgent, keep an eye on the tracking number.