Some came in wheelchairs, a few with canes. Many took halting steps with arthritic knees. But they came, anyway, to pay their respects to the late President Cory Aquino, who would have turned 80 years old on Friday.
In her lifetime, former President Corazon Aquino was wont to tell her staff that they need not visit her grave when she’s gone.
Instant 3-in-1 coffee and Boy Bawang corn kernels are easily the snack food of choice among Filipinos, judging by the trash washed up with depressing regularity on the shores of Manila Bay.
Empty packets of instant 3-in-1 coffee and Boy Bawang native snacks turned out to be a constant litter when some 1, 230 volunteers scoured the shoreline of Freedom Island at the edge of Manila Bay for the annual Servathon 2012 recently.
Inna Puno does her father, resigned Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Rico Puno, proud.
The last time Sister Flory Basa saw her niece, Cristina Corona, the wife of Chief Justice Renato Corona, was while the latter was in the process of filing a libel suit against the now 90-year-old nun and three other relatives.
They may have spent close to P2 million for the visit of President Benigno Aquino III lasting just a few hours but that doesn’t mean they were not adhering to his policy of following the “matuwid na daan,” or the righteous path.
After some hemming and hawing, Iloilo Representative Niel Tupas Jr. on Wednesday finally confirmed he and a Philippine Savings Bank branch manager, Anabelle Tiongson, had met before.
Ambush-survivor National Bureau on Investigation (NBI) deputy director Rey Esmeralda on Wednesday said he received death threats two weeks ago, prompting him to change vehicles as a security precaution.
Korean-born TV host Grace Lee wants journalist Ellen Tordesillas to “formally apologize to the public” for a report that quoted Lee as saying she hoped her relationship with President Benigno Aquino lll would last “the full length.”
Retired Supreme Court Justice Serafin Cuevas on Monday said there was no truth to a Philippine Daily Inquirer story which reported him as saying that someone from Malacañang had tried to pressure him into quitting as chief lawyer for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
On what would have been the 79th birthday of former President Corazon Aquino, her son, now the President, spent the day rallying people, especially the victims of the most recent natural disaster in the country, to live the spirit of People Power.
Many were up at dawn in a race to repaint a Port Area daycare center by sunrise. A record 3,500 employees from 28 corporations on Saturday repainted classrooms, playgrounds and libraries for street children, continuing the spirit of volunteerism of the Hands on Manila (HoM) Servathon launched six years ago by HoM.
