The required plebiscites will coincide with the 2023 Barangay and SK elections in October 1. However, I don't know how will they be represented in the Lower House (i.e. which legislative district/s will they be in).

If approved, these eight will be the first municipalities to be formed since July 2009, when three municipalities were formed by the then-ARMM Legislative Assembly in present-day Maguindanao del Sur: Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Datu Salibo, and Shariff Saydona Mustapha.

MANILA -- The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has allowed the screening of the movie "Barbie" in the Philippines as it found "no clear nor outright depiction of 9-dash line" in the film.

"The Board believes that all things considered, it has no basis to ban the film 'Barbie' as there is no clear nor outright depiction of the nine-dash line in the subject film," MTRCB said in its letter to Sen. Francis Tolentino, who sought the banning of the film.

MTRCB said the movie "underwent two meticulous screenings," the second one with representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Solicitor General "in order to fully ascertain and determine if the said lines depict the nine-dash line."

"We have similarly sought the opinion of a legal expert on the West Philippine Sea during the deliberations in order to gather as much resources to arrive with a fully-informed decision regarding this matter," MTRCB explained.

The movie "Barbie" was recently banned in Vietnam due to scenes that supposedly feature a map with the 9-dash line, which represents China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.

According to an exclusive report from Variety, the representative of the film group stated that the inclusion of the map in the movie was not meant to convey any specific message.

“The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing. The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement,” the spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group said.

A total of 30,363 residents voted to convert the Municipality of Carmona into a component city of Cavite in a plebiscite held Saturday.

The Commission on Elections said turnout was at 53.90% – or 31,632 out of the 58,691 registered voters.

About 96% of those who voted said yes to Carmona's cityhood while only 4% or 1,016 said no, according to the board of canvassers.

Top 5 causes of death:

1. Ischemic heart disease
2. Neoplasms
3. Cardiovascular disease
4. Diabetes mellitus
5. Hypertensive diseases

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but in the end, it doesn't even matter

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Rank by subindex:

• Economic Participation and Opportunity: 17th at 0.789
• Educational Attainment: 32nd but near-perfect 0.999
• Health and Survival: 86th but near-perfect 0.968
• Political Empowerment: 30th at 0.409

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Source is here

>Given a sponsor-authorized release of a commissioned survey item, SWS is disclosing pertinent survey results and technical details for the benefit of the public.

>The SWS April 15-18, 2023 national survey was commissioned by Mr. Arnel Ty. It contained a question item on voting preferences for Senators using a list of names provided by Mr. Ty. The results are shown in Table 1.

>The survey was a nationwide probability-based survey conducted from April 15-18, 2023 using face-to-face computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI). A total of 1,200 adults (18 years old and above) were interviewed: 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. This gives a sampling error margin of ±3% for national percentages, and ±6% each for Metro Manila, Balance of Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.

>The area estimates were weighted by the Philippine Statistics Authority medium-population projections for 2023 to obtain the national estimates.