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Cebu

Cebu \Cebu\ prop. n.

  1. one of the Visayan islands of the central Philippines, important for its fine harbor.

  2. an important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.

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cebu

n. 1 Island in central Philippines. 2 Province in central Philippines. 3 City in the Philippines, the capital of Cebu province.

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Cebu

Cebu (, or ; , ) is a }} of the Philippines#Income classification| of the Philippines located in the region, and consisting of the main island itself and 167 surrounding islands and islets. Its capital is Cebu City, the oldest city and first capital of the Philippines, which is politically independent from the provincial government. Cebu City forms part of the Cebu Metropolitan Area together with four neighboring cities ( Danao City, Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City and Talisay City) and eight other local government units. Mactan-Cebu International Airport, located in Mactan Island, is the second busiest airport in the Philippines.

Cebu is one of the most developed provinces in the Philippines, with Cebu City as the main center of commerce, trade, education and industry in the Visayas. In a decade it has transformed into a global hub for shipping, furniture-making, tourism, business processing services, and heavy industry.

Cebu (disambiguation)

Cebu may refer to:

Cebu (novel)

Cebu is a 1991 novel by Filipino American author Peter Bacho the "most visible figure" of second-generation, native-born Filipino American writing and one of several Seattle novelists in the 1990s to explore the racial history and sociology of Seattle. The novel is also "the first novel about a Filipino American who identifies primarily with US localities," rather than with the Philippines.

Usage examples of "cebu".

From another pocket of the case he pulled out a one-way ticket on Philippines Airline Flight 434 from Manila to Cebu City in the southern Philippines.

Flight 434 was a two-leg hop, from Manila to Cebu City and then on to Narita Airport in Japan.

Edwardo Reyes came over the PA to announce that the three-hundred-mile flight to Cebu would take just over forty minutes.

But back in Cebu, as Yousef rushed across the airport terminal to make the next flight out, Haruki Ikegami, a soft-spoken twenty-four-year-old Japanese engineer, had just made it through the metal detector.

Trial records and documents from the Philippine National Police show that Nichols was in Cebu City at the same time as Yousef in December 1994 - staying in a section of the Visayas island group that was a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.

In 1989, after divorcing his first wife, a Las Vegas real estate broker named Lana Padilla, he married Marife Torres, a nineteen-year-old Filapina from Cebu City.

From 1990 to 1994 he made at least four trips to the Philippines and lived with Marife for a time in Cebu City, not far from where the Abu Sayyaf terror group was active.

Nichols stayed in Cebu City from late November until January 16, 1995 - the same period when Yousef was in Manila planning the plot against the pope, the Bojinka airline bombings, and the suicide hijackings.

Meanwhile, after Nichols left Manila, a phone card used by him and McVeigh in the name of Darryl Bridges showed a total of seventy-eight calls to a guest house in Cebu where Marife had been staying.

Jones was convinced that Nichols had gone to Cebu on that last trip to study bomb making from the master himself: Ramzi Yousef.

Terry goes to Cebu, and when he comes back he helps build a device with the same kind of design and explosive power as the Trade Center bomb.

Makiem have effectively allied and coordinated with the Cebu and the Agitar.

For one thing, he found out that Agitar was allied with Makiem, a hex whose dominant race were giant frogs, and Cebu, a race of flying reptiles of some sort.

Makiem on the ground, and to the great, red-eyed flying triangles that were the Cebu, it was an awesome sight, even taking into account their different concepts of what was grand.

Their only hope was to get inside the Cebu defensive screen and strike the great pegasi down by bullet or stinger, even though the latter method would mean their own deaths as well.