Noynoy Aquino

filipina at home on July 22nd, 2010

Dear Mr. President, If I may offer my humble opinion, I wouldn’t mind if you had a wang-wang (siren) on your vehicle. After all, you are the new leader of this nation. Perhaps, as an individual, you have always lived simply. I understand that you do want want to come off as arrogant, flamboyant or [...]

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filipina at home on July 3rd, 2010

I have been meaning to dish this article out which is the second of two written by British journalist Matthew Sutherland in 1999. Please click here to see the previous one. I find it so timely following the proclamation of the country’s top 2 leaders (President and VP) whose own names are an affirmation of [...]

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filipina at home on March 23rd, 2010

In less than two months, the country will again go the the polls to elect a new President. This particular one gives us reason to be genuinely anxious as we are about to experience fully automated elections for the first time. Despite controversies concerning the supplier, doubts on the poll body’s capability to oversee the process and confusion among the electorate about the modernized method of voting, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) nevertheless appears confident that it can carry out its task.

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