The product was launched commercially in 1952 under the brand name Ilosone (after the Philippine region of Iloilo where it was originally collected).

Included are industry and agrarian studies, research on transnational corporations and agribusinesses, comparative studies of economies, resource profiles of Philippine regions and studies on the impact of these socioeconomic conditions on social sectors.

Should the list of names for the Philippine region be exhausted then names will be taken from an auxiliary list of which the first ten are published each season.

This was the first time since 1971 that extra names were needed in the Philippine region.

Rundell, who now helps oversee the Philippine region for SIL, is mostly on a sightseeing mission, comparing the "then" with the "now."

This has led to historians overall disregarding the testimony of de Mafra which has overarching importance in Age of Discovery geography of the Philippine region.

The Philippine region also set a record: with only eleven storms forming or moving into its area of responsibility, PAGASA had its quietest season as of 2006.

From a geopolitical standpoint, the Philippine region of the Visayas comprises the following islands: Panay, Romblon, Guimaras, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, Leyte, Biliran and Samar.

Later on May 17, Halong made landfall on the Philippine region of Pangasinan and travelled towards the northeast over Luzon.

In 1942, during World War II, as the Japanese occupation of the Philippines began, the region was one of the first among the Philippine regions to be subjected by Japanese occupation.