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Aquino to arrive late in Cambodia; still busy checking Metro ports, terminals

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PHNOM PENH—President Aquino will arrive here late Monday night and will skip the welcome dinner to be hosted by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for leaders of the two-day Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit here.

President Benigno Aquino III INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

The dinner for Asean leaders is scheduled at 7 p.m. Monday at the Peace Palace, the venue for the 20th Asean summit.

Palace aides said Mr. Aquino will leave Manila at 8 p.m. Monday via a chartered flight and will arrive here at 9:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. in Manila).

Apparently, the President has to attend to Holy Week preparations before he jets to the Cambodian capital for the Asean summit.

On Monday morning, Mr. Aquino was busy personally inspecting airport, bus terminals and ports as people stream out of Metro Manila and head for their hometowns for their Holy Week break.

The Chief Executive, who will be in Cambodia until April 4 (Holy Wednesday), had said that when he returns home, he will continue to monitor the movements of people as they travel back home from the provinces.


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  • Guest

    aquino III is a classic example of people who knows everything but can’t do his own job.

  • dannyflorencio

    On Monday morning, Mr. Aquino was busy personally inspecting airport, bus terminals and ports as people stream out of Metro Manila and head for their hometowns for their Holy Week break.

    a typical case of Noynoy-ing

    -doing something, of less importance, that you are not supposed to do. DOTC must be the one doing that.

  • noypisiTED

    This nonentity sees nothing unpresidential in visiting ports especially at this time of the year when our ports, sea, land and air, were teeming with so many provincial-bound travelers and vacationers. I’d prefer a hands-on prez than a delegatory one. Now, if the prez is not seen making the rounds others would heckle him “noynoying” or lazybones. If he does the inspecting himself some are quick to say “it was too minor task to merit the president’s full attention.” But José, the safety of our citizens takes precedence since it involves national security and interest. Besides, when the president does the rounds some slackers and goldbrickers suddenly were on their toes and me thinks he purposely does it to ensure, first and foremost, the safety of our travelers. PNoy skipping a very important dinner together with SEA heads of state to see how our major ports are doing deserves approbation. After all he can always have dinner of his choosing, be it rare, medium or well-done. What more, with someone special.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3TWVIBNBHJIBKXLUC5IT2JYM5E Harry

      And what are the duties of the port authorities? Will they be Noynoying while the President does the jobs for them?
      When the President issues special instructions to the port authorities, will that not be authoritative enough?
      What if the Asean chiefs of state snub our President on future occasions? 

    • billygunn23

      “What more, with someone special.”

      Yeah, he’s special———a special child when he was young.

  • dannyflorencio

    A very lousy excuse by a lazy president to be late on a dignified function.

    Shame on you tardy Abnoy !!!

  • billygunn23

    WTF! Do you really need to personally check every port and terminal to let people see how hardworking you are? This is total BS! Or maybe there is really something wrong with your brain that you need a serious blow para matauhan ka! Oo nga may gingawa ka, pero naman el presidente, pati ba naman yan papatulan mo????????

    Magresign ka na nga! Kakainis ka na ha!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QZZKXPEA67I7HELEIYM35QVYFA Jon

    Kaya nagpunta sa mga sakayan, nagpapabaon si Pwhnoy sa mga pauwi.
    Kandila, lampara, at flashlight at kanyang pampasalubong.
    Dahil matagal pa bago magawan ng solusyon ang malawakang brownout sa probinsya.
    Pinag-iisapn pa daw kasi nila ng maigi kaya matatagalan.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4UUKT3KMR3HZPFPTGCWK5XQ2WY Mark

    Balita ba yan?

    Palagi namang late yang kumag na yan.

    Kung gumigising nga, eh tanghali na!

    Para naman kayong naninibago kay sinto-sinto.

  • BatangSingapore

    kung hindi ba naman talagang Abnoy yan pangulo.  Tapos na eleksyon nangangampanya pa.  trip nya talaga mga ganyan yun nambobola ng publiko. hahhahahahha

    may sayad na talaga.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3TWVIBNBHJIBKXLUC5IT2JYM5E Harry

    The agenda this time is complicated. There is again the problem of the South China Sea, the North Korean rocket tests, Asean common market, Myanmar post-election, etc. Too much heavy stuff to handle but nothing on anti-corruption which is the President’s forte.



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