A newspaper report said that a senior member of the Church hierarchy advised Noynoy Aquino to get out of the shadows of Ninoy and Cory, to be his own man.
In its obituary on President Corazon Aquino, the Economist asserts that she attained greatness in leading the fight to oust the dictator Ferdinand Marcos but disappointed when it came to governing.
“Four hours before the inauguration, there was enough menace in a subway crowd – a shouting throng packed together with exits jammed – that the station master made a bad choice of announcement. ‘Don’t panic,’ he bellowed over the public address system.
The uproar in the Philippines by the militant workers’ group Migrante over the 117 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who recently ran away from their employers and ended up living under a bridge in the Kandara district of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is a case of misplaced anger.
I was utterly shocked to see the photos of Filipino actress Ara Mina "hotting it up" with the ascetic ideologue Jose Maria Sison, whose writings I read while studying Asian politics at SOAS in London. I also am a keen student of Asia cinema, and I am familiar with the career of Ms Mina.
