The EDSA Revolution of 2001, also called by the local media as EDSA II (pronounced as Edsa dos) or the Second People Power Revolution, is the common name of the four-day popular revolution that peacefully overthrew Philippine President Joseph Estrada in January 2001. He was succeeded by his then vice president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.... (read more)

The WikiPilipinas Story of the Year for 2011 is the labor strike of the Philippine Airlines Employees Association. This conflict had the most direct effect to the Filipino worker since it enunciated the ongoing trend in Philippine labor—flexibility through contractualization. It started early this decade—the emergence of the business process outsourcing industry; and the rise of part-time, casual, and freelance works in the fields of information technology, multimedia arts, and Internet-based content writing. Yet, despite these new labor trends in the country, unemployment and underemployment is still on the rise...(read more)

• Philippines at the 2011 SEA Games - Philippine sports
• International Day to End Impunity - Araw ng pag-alaala
• Suso - Bahagi ng katawan

Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega is an environmentalist and radio commentator who was assassinated on 24 January 2011 in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. His death made him the 142nd casualty of violence against media workers in the Philippines since 1986. Ortega was well known among Palaweños for his campaigns against allegedly abusive mining firms, among other environmental concerns; alleged corruption on road projects and self-serving political interests in local governance; and homelessness, becoming active in the Gawad Kalinga housing projects... (read more)

• Probe pressed on SSS sale of P5.7-B shares to questionable firm
• Venus, Jupiter to line up with moon this February – Pagasa
• JI, Abu Sayyaf leaders killed in Sulu air strike
• No defective condoms here – DOH

Hi Tsii, there are some online myths about that yellow traffic sign. A source wrote that Ped Xing was an enigmatic Chinese Filipino engineer and Katipunero who kept the minutes of the Katipunan's meetings underneath the foundation of the electric lamp posts he built. Meanwhile, former Manila mayor Lito Atienza once said that Ped Xing came from a wealthy Chinese family in Binondo. The fact of the matter, Tsii, is that Ped Xing is no person. It is a mere contraction of the word "pedestrian crossing" ("Ped from "pedestrian" and "X" for the word "cross" in "crossing"). So the next time you cross the pedestrian lane with a Ped Xing sign hanging beneath a traffic light, you can proudly say that Ped Xing is not a person. You have been informed. :D

• Mi Ultimo Adios - Rizal's farewell poem
• Leonor Rivera - Rizal's first sweetheart
• Calamba - Rizal's birthplace
• Ferdinand Blumentritt - Rizal's best friend

• January 30, 1911 - Taal Volcano erupts, killing 1,300 people and destroying 13 villages.
• January 30, 1899 - American invaders establish the Supreme Court, and appoint Cayetano Arellano as the first Chief Justice. The invaders also ask Arellano to draft plans for the reorganization of municipal governments in the Philippines.