Despite having to reset the precinct count optical scan machine four times in almost two hours after 65 voters had voted on Monday in his precinct, President Benigno Aquino III said he was happy with the conduct of the elections.
By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez’s tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his smiling image, an epic farewell to a larger-than-life leader remembered simply as “our commander.”
To mark his 53rd birthday last Friday, the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office headed by Ricky Carandang released “Ten Facts about President Aquino” that are not widely known to the public.
President Benigno Aquino, who had a falling out with the leadership of the influential Catholic Church for pushing for the passage of the reproductive health ill, seemed to be in no rush to sign the measure, which was finally passed last week by both chambers of Congress.
President Benigno Aquino’s visit to his parents’ tomb on Friday afternoon was hardly a quiet or intimate affair.
Iran’s embattled president has backed down from a public dispute with his country’s judiciary.
Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo might be discharged from the Veterans Memorial Medical Center Tuesday if her blood tests turn out to be normal, VMMC director Dr. Nona Legaspi said.
Thousands of Egyptians packed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday to celebrate the presidential election victory of Mohamed Morsi, waving flags and posters of the Islamist leader.
Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi claimed victory Monday in Egypt’s first free presidential vote, as the military handed itself sweeping powers in a move denounced by activists as a “coup.”
“We have to move on.” Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio issued the remark Monday, referring to the recently concluded impeachment trial and eventual conviction of former Chief Justice Renato Corona for culpable violation of the Constitution.
Some incumbent justices of the Supreme Court may have hurt their chances of becoming the next Chief Justice when they allowed the high tribunal’s system of keeping their statements of assets, liabilities and net worth under lock and key.
The people will never regard President Benigno Aquino as a dictator, a Palace spokesperson said in thumbing down comments made by critics on the supposed obsession of the Chief Executive to oust Chief Justice Renato Corona.
