Pasay

American  

[pah-sahy] / ˈpɑ saɪ /

noun

1. a city in E Philippines, on Manila Bay, on E Luzon.

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Pasay British  

/ ˈpɑːsaɪ /

noun

1. Also called: Rizal. a city in the Philippines, on central Luzon just south of Manila, on Manila Bay. Pop: 364 000 (2005 est)

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Pasay

State-owned China Communications Construction Co. has said that one of its subsidiaries, China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd., is involved in a project that includes building three artificial islands in the bay near suburban Pasay city.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Philippine Senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao reads his briefing materials as he prepares for the Senate session in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines September 20, 2016.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2021

Loretta Mendoza was born in Pasay City, in the Philippines, to parents who had fled by foot into the countryside to escape the Japanese occupation during World War II, at times eating roots to survive.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2020

A few days later, the freshly cremated ashes of father and son are interred together at Pasay city cemetery, a graveyard as chaotic and crowded as the slums its residents had left behind.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2018

The father confessed all the people of Pasay, a village whose people had, in order to escape the danger, taken refuge in that house.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

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