By ELLEN TORDESILLAS PRESIDENT Aquino told an impressionable bunch of students from Miriam College that he will not be putting on more pressure on his cabinet members concerned that they would suffer burn out. This is what he said last Tuesday: “The Cabinet is very hardworking, they’re very dedicated. You can’t ask anything more of
THERE’S a compelling reason for President Aquino to make sure that that he would be able to influence the people’s choice of his successor otherwise he would suffer the same fate that befell the two presidents before him. His predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is in jail – hospital arrest, actually- facing plunder and electoral sabotage
BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS TODAY, photos of the President with Janet Napoles, the alleged brains of the mindboggling pork barrel scam, made the rounds in Facebook and Twitter. They were taken at the same occasion where Napoles daughter, Jeane, had her photo with President Aquino- after the national thanksgiving mass for the canonization of
BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS THERE’S a politician I know who welcomes people having a picture taken with him marking them perhaps as a potential vote come Election Day. In a few parties that I attended where Vice President Jejomar Binay was a guest, I noticed that he was always accompanied by a photographer. The VP
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS EARLY last week, President Aquino was telling everybody—from the Vietnamese defense minister to guests at the 2013 Apolinario Mabini Awards in Malacanang—that he was pushing through with his Sept. 3 visit to China. The media reported the trip on Wednesday, and quoted the President saying, “Bibiyahe ho tayo next week. Mahaba hong
By TESSA JAMANDRE PRESIDENT Aquino is going on a one-day trip to China on Sept. 3 in what is seen as an effort to end strained relations with China triggered by the standoff in Bajo de Masinloc in April last year. The President has accepted China’s invitation to attend the 10th ASEAN-China Expo (CAEXPO) to
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS WHILE waiting for the arrest warrant issued by the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division to be served to Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, the government’s star witness in the NBN/ZTE plunder case against Gloria Arroyo, members of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines wrote the Police Chief Alan Purisima requesting, among others, to
Text by LALA ORDENES Photos and interview by MARIO IGNACIO IV Photographer Mario Ignacio went around during the President’s third SONA and asked men and women on the street their thoughts on Aquino’s presidency and how he is managing the country. This is what they have to say.
Video and full text of President Benigno S. Aquino III's State of the Nation Address
Ito po ang aking ikatlong SONA, at parang kailan lang nang nagsimula tayong mangarap. Parang kailan lang nang sabay-sabay tayong nagpasyang tahakin ang tuwid na daan. Parang kailan lang nang sinimulan nating iwaksi ang wang-wang, hindi lamang sa kalsada kundi sa sistemang panlipunan.
Watch the live stream of President Benigno S. Aquino III’s Third State of the Nation Address.