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Improving Cory Aquino craves for hot prawn salad--son
MANILA, Philippines--The condition of former President Corazon Aquino, who has been getting chemotheraphy treatment for her colon cancer, has improved, and she has regained her appetite, according to her son Sen. Benigno "Noynoy ''Aquino 111.
Political thoughts during Lent
MANILA, Philippines - Almost 100,000 people massed in Makati on Feb. 29, 2008? Does this portend another People Power Revolt?
Arab view of Pinoy People Power
The 22nd anniversary of People Power came and went on February 25 without commemoration by a single US newspaper editorial.
Cory, Erap, Binay, Noli, Satur and J-Lo
If the Original Sin was Hello Garci, the Continuing Crime is the thwarted kidnapping of Jun Lozada. Both offered the administration a chance at redemption; instead, both have led to an ever-widening circle of accomplices willing to sacrifice everything—reputation, integrity, credibility—in the service of the President.
People power parodies
MANILA, Philippines - Great expectations trailed the People Power revolution of 1986 that brought down 20 years of Marcos tyranny, just as great expectations followed Edsa II after the bacchanalian jokester of a presidency under the nocturnally imbibing Joseph Estrada.