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Parañaque
Parañaque, officially the City of Parañaque (, ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 689,992 people. It is bordered to the north by Pasay, to the northeast by Taguig, to the southeast by Muntinlupa, to the southwest by Las Piñas, and to the west by Manila Bay. Like the rest of Metro Manila, Parañaque experiences a tropical climate with only two distinct seasons, wet (July to September) and dry (October to June). The city enjoys an annual rainfall of and an average daily maximum temperature of . Parañaque is the home of Entertainment City, a gaming and entertainment complex under development by the state-owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, spanning an area of in Bay City, Metro Manila, Bay City, where four large integrated resorts are based namely Solaire Resort & Casino, City of Dreams Manila, Okada Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parañaque Cathedral
The Cathedral Parish of Saint Andrew, also known as the Diocesan Shrine of Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso and commonly known as Parañaque Cathedral, is one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in the Philippines, located in Parañaque City, Metro Manila. Established on by the Spanish Augustinians Augustinians are members of several religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written about 400 A.D. by Augustine of Hippo. There are two distinct types of Augustinians in Catholic religious orders dating back to the 12th–13 ..., it is, at present, the cathedra, seat of the Diocese of Parañaque, which comprises the cities of Parañaque, Las Piñas, and Muntinlupa. History Spanish period Saint Andrew Parish started when Augustinian missionaries set foot on a fishing village near the sea, some kilometers south of Manila, more than four hundred years ago. The missionaries' purpose was to evangelism, evangelize the natives in order to facilitate the conquest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Dionisio, Parañaque
San Dionisio is an administrative division in southern Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a barangay at the southwestern edge of Parañaque and north of its border with Manuyo, Las Piñas. The barangay is centered on the westernmost section of Dr. Santos Avenue (formerly Sucat Road) where it veers north and parallels Elpidio Quirino Avenue (former Calle Real) with De Leon Street and Aldana Avenue forming its boundaries with La Huerta, Parañaque, La Huerta and Manuyo Uno respectively. It extends to the east along the San Dionisio River-Villanueva Creek by barangay Moonwalk to the north and along Balong Creek by Manuyo Dos, Las Piñas to the south towards its border with San Isidro, Parañaque, San Isidro. San Dionisio includes a large swath of the Circumferential Road 5, C-5 Road South Extension properties in Parañaque including the Amvel Business Park, Avida Sucat and SM City Sucat sites, the Irasan Complex logistics hub, and as well as the area surrounding the Evacom Plaza. It al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Olivarez
Eric de Leon Olivarez (born October 4) is a Filipino politician, educator, and registered nurse who served as Mayor of Parañaque from 2022 to 2025 and is currently serving as representative of the city's first district since 2025. He previously served as a councilor. Early life and education Eric Olivarez earned his undergraduate degree for Bachelor of Arts major in History & Political Science at De La Salle University, Manila. He later earned his degree for Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the California State University and passed the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEx) in Los Angeles, California, USA. Upon returning to the Philippines to manage their family-owned school, he also finished his Masteral and Doctoral Degrees in Educational Management at De La Salle University, Manila. Career Educator Olivarez became a commissioner and accreditor at the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities – Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA, Inc.) and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Olivarez
Edwin de Leon Olivarez (born August 14, 1963) is a Filipino politician, athlete, and businessman currently serving as a Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Parañaque's 1st District since 2022 and previously from 2010 to 2013. He previously served as Mayor of Parañaque from 2013 to 2022, as well as the Metro Manila Council Chair and head of the Regional Peace and Order Council – National Capital Region in concurrent capacity. He also served as board member of Laguna before serving as Vice Governor of Laguna from 2004 to 2007. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Laguna in 2007. Olivarez played on the national tennis team, and was NCAA Junior and Senior Tennis Champion. In February 2025, Olivarez was one of the 95 Lakas–CMD members who voted to impeach vice president Sara Duterte. Early life Olivarez is the son of former mayor and incumbent San Dionisio barangay captain Pablo Olivarez and older brother of incumbent mayor Eric Olivarez. Political ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Parañaque ...
The Mayor of Parañaque () is the chief executive of the government of Parañaque in Metro Manila, Philippines. The mayor leads the city's departments in executing ordinances and delivering public services. The mayorship is a three-year term and each mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totaling nine years, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term. The current mayor of Parañaque is Eric Olivarez. List Served in acting capacity. References {{reflist Parañaque Parañaque Parañaque, officially the City of Parañaque (, ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Yamsuan
Brian Raymund Sandoval Yamsuan (born October 19, 1973) is a Filipino politician and former government consultant currently has served as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Bicol Saro Partylist from 2022 to 2025 and as representative of Parañaque's 2nd district since 2025. Early life and education Brian Raymund Sandoval Yamsuan was born on October 19, 1973. He attended the National University for his secondary studies. Yamsuan pursued an undergraduate degree in political science at the Far Eastern University. Career Yamsuan worked for various politicians and government offices. He was a media officer for Senator Edgardo Angara from 1996 to 1998 and chief of staff for Senator Tessie Aquino-Oreta from 2001 to 2004. He was head of the Media Accreditation and Relations Division of the Office of the Press Secretary from 1998 to 2001. Fernando Poe Jr.'s 2004 presidential campaign had Yamsuan as its deputy media director. Yamsuan was also a consultant for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baclaran Church
The National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, also known as the Redemptorist Church () and colloquially as Baclaran Church (), is a national shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help along Roxas Boulevard in Baclaran, Parañaque city of Metro Manila, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Parañaque. The church enshrines the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and is one of the largest Roman Catholic Marian churches, Marian churches in the Philippines. Devotion to Our Mother of Perpetual Help is popular amongst Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, Filipino Catholics, who flood the church on Wednesdays to attend Mass (liturgy), Mass and pray the Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help. In Manila, Wednesdays are popularly called "Baclaran Day" due to congested roads near the shrine. The original icon enshrined above the main altar came from Germany before priests of the Redemptorist Order brought it to what was then the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okada Manila
Okada Manila ( Japanese: オカダマニラ, romanized: ''Okada Manira'') is an integrated resort located on the Entertainment City gaming strip in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. With a total construction cost of about ¥250 billion, Okada Manila was established and opened after seven years of construction in 2017. History Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment was granted a license to operate a casino within the Entertainment City in 2008. In June 2016, the casino complex then named as Manila Bay Resorts was re-branded as Okada Manila. The facility is intended to be used by Okada to compete with casinos in Macau and to position Metro Manila as a regional and international destination. The casino was set to open in November 2016 but the opening was later delayed due to worse-than-expected weather conditions. The casino complex was opened for "preview" on December 21, 2016, and later commenced operations as a casino on December 30, 2016. The Fountain, was officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Representatives Of The Philippines
The House of Representatives (; '','' thus commonly referred to as ''Kamara'') is the lower house of Congress of the Philippines, Congress, the bicameral legislature of the Philippines, with the Senate of the Philippines as the upper house. The lower house is commonly Totum pro parte, referred to as Congress, although the term collectively refers to both houses. Members of the House are officially styled as ''representatives'' () and are sometimes informally called ''congressmen'' or ''congresswomen'' (). They are elected to a three-year term and can be re-elected, but cannot serve more than three consecutive terms without an interruption of one term (e.g. serving one term in the Senate ''ad interim''). Around 80% of congressmen are district representatives, representing specific geographical areas. The 19th Congress has 253 Congressional districts of the Philippines, congressional districts. Party-list representatives, who make up not more than twenty percent of the total number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of The Philippines
In the Philippines, provinces ( or ) are one of its primary political and administrative divisions of the Philippines, administrative divisions. There are 82 provinces at present, which are further subdivided into Cities of the Philippines, component cities and Municipalities of the Philippines, municipalities. The local government units in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region, as well as Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities, independent cities, are independent of any provincial government. Each province is governed by an elected legislature called the Sangguniang Panlalawigan and an elected governor. The provinces are grouped into Regions of the Philippines, eighteen regions based on geographical, cultural, and ethnological characteristics. Thirteen of these regions are numerically designated from north to south, while the National Capital Region, the Cordillera Administrative Region, the Southwestern Tagalog Region (Mimaropa), the Negros Island Region, and the Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakas–CMD
Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats, abbreviated as Lakas–CMD and also known simply as Lakas, (and known as Lakas–Kampi until 2011) is a political party in the Philippines. Lakas–CMD is considered to be on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum and is influenced by Christian democracy and Islam and democracy, Islamic democracy. Since the 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections, 2022 elections, Lakas–CMD is currently the biggest party in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives, with the party's president, Martin Romualdez, serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, Speaker of the House. The party is a dominant member of the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas led by President Bongbong Marcos. Lakas–CMD has produced one President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who was in power when the party was formed in 2009, and one vice president, Sara Duterte, who was electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangguniang Panlungsod
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is the local legislature, legislative body of a Philippine city, city government in the Philippines. The name of the legislative body comes from the Filipino language, Filipino words "''sanggunian''" ("council") – ultimately from the root word "''sangguni''" ("to consult") – both of Tagalog language, Tagalog origins, with the latter word also of Kapampangan language, Kapampangan and Old Tagalog origins, and "''lungsod''" ("city") of both Tagalog language, Tagalog ("lungsod" = "city") – but ultimately Visayan language, Bisayan ("lungsod" = town or municipality) – origins; "city council" is therefore often used as an equivalent term in English language, English or Philippine English. Members of the city council are referred to as "''kagawad''"; while in mostly but not only predominantly Bisayan-speaking cities, they are called "''konsehal''" (masc.) and "''konsehala''" (fem.), or "''sehal''". The Local Government Code of 1991 governs the compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
