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Joey Uy
Luis "Joey" Chua Uy (born March 15, 1963) is a Filipino politician who is the representative-elect of Manila's sixth district. Before being elected to Congress, he had served as a member of the Manila City Council for the same district from 2022 and previously from 2004 to 2013. Early life and career Uy was born on March 15, 1963. He entered politics in 2004, when he was elected to the Manila City Council as a member for the sixth district, a seat he would hold until 2013, being re-elected in 2007 and in 2010 elections. He left the post in 2013 upon reaching the term limit. He would return to the local legislature in 2022 as part of a wider landslide victory of the Asenso Manileño, capped by the election of Honey Lacuna as mayor. In August 2024, Uy became one of the 16 members of the Asenso bloc in the 12th City Council to leave the party after 19 councilors convened on July 23 when the city government declared all work to be suspended in response to the impact of Ty ... [...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] |
Typhoon Carina
Typhoon Gaemi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Carina, was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone which impacted East China, Taiwan, and the Philippines in late July 2024. Gaemi, which means ant in Korean, the third named storm and second typhoon of the 2024 Pacific typhoon season, annual typhoon season, formed as a tropical depression east of Palau on July 19. Owing to favorable environmental conditions, the typhoon intensified and reached its peak with ten-minute maximum sustained winds of , and a central atmospheric pressure of . With one-minute sustained winds at , Gaemi was classified as a Category 4-equivalent typhoon. The storm then turned north-northwestward, along the western periphery of a subtropical ridge. After stalling and executing a tight counter-clockwise loop near the coast, Gaemi slightly weakened due to land interaction before making landfall on the northeastern coast of Taiwan on July 24. It emerged over the Taiwan Strait just six hours after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
