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...With its rich cuisine and decadent drinks, LPM isn’t the place for calorie counters FYI: For art lovers, you’ll see a Ferdinand Barbedienne reproduction of “Gloria Victis”, the 19th-century bronze statue...
...The last two presidents, Benigno Aquino III and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, were both offspring of former presidents....
...This weekend marks the 31st anniversary of the fall of president Ferdinand Marcos, after the “People Power” protests against his repressive 20-year rule....
...Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr may be Mr Duterte’s vice president....
...Leni Robredo, a lawyer who joined the house of representatives in 2013, appears likely to be vice president after beating Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr....
...In government after government since the fall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, the person running the Philippine central bank has usually been assigned the unenviable role of spoilsport: to impose common...
...Aside from a push against corruption that included the incarceration of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Manila has introduced hard-hitting economic reforms....
...Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the former president, whose administration is considered one of the most corrupt in years, has been brought to trial....
...Gloria Arroyo, the former president of the Philippines, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of “electoral sabotage” in a case that underscores the new president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s efforts to...
...Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity , edited by Gloria Groom, Yale University Press, RRP£45 Bourgeois meets bohemian: the sumptuous, irresistible volume accompanying a show currently at the Musée d’Orsay...
...Five of his eight rivals conceded defeat, helping to ease tensions in the transition to a new political regime when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo steps down on June 30....
...His father, Benigno Aquino Jr, was killed by government security forces in 1983 after returning from exile to lead the opposition to Ferdinand Marcos....
...Cesar Purisima, Mr Aquino confirmed on Tuesday, will return to the post of finance secretary which he left in 2005 after a falling out with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the current president....
...Critics had compared the imposition of martial law with a similar move by Ferdinand Marcos in1972, which ushered in more than a decade of one-man rule....
...Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, president, has ordered a state of emergency in the troubled southern island of Mindanao....
...By Victor Mallet, Madrid bureau chief The Philippines has had a reputation as a violent archipelago ever since Ferdinand Magellan failed to circumnavigate the globe (though some of his sailors did make it...
...Military officers accused of planning coups against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines on Sunday launched a political party and announced plans to seek legislative and local posts in next...
...Since the years of stagnation under the autocratic rule of Ferdinand Marcos, the country’s long-term economic growth rate has risen from 3 per cent to 4.5 per cent, according to Benjamin Diokno, an economist...
...So overwhelming has been the emotional outpouring that even Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the current, unloved, president, whose resignation Aquino had demanded, felt obliged to cut short a visit to Washington...
...Mr Aquino is a first-term senator who was not considered a presidential contender until the death of his mother, Corazon Aquino, who led the 1986 “People Power” revolt that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand...
...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had declared Wednesday a holiday....
...Opposition leaders and legal experts have voiced concern over President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s imposition of martial law in the troubled southern province of Maguindanao following one of the worst cases...
...Raul Gonzalez, justice secretary, said that the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which aims to recover about $10bn of the allegedly ill-gotten wealth of Ferdinand Marcos, the late dictator, and...
...Gloria Arroyo, the Philippine president, sought to dispel speculation she plans to declare emergency rule or change the constitution to stay in power after 2010, saying on Monday she would not seek to extend...
...In fact, there were at least nine presidential candidates to replace Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as 15th president of the Philippines....
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