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...He had been brought up on John Buchan novels and stories of Jock of the Bushveld, “about a dog that ran wild in the bush”....
...After giving few details on his policies while campaigning, Marcos Jr eased concerns in the business community when he named Diokno, who also served in then-president Corazon Aquino’s administration, as...
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...Apart from his political role, Marcos Jr was chair of Philcomsat, one of the companies sequestered by Corazon Aquino’s “People Power” government that took power after the dictator’s toppling as it probed...
...But Rodrigo Duterte, Mr Aquino’s successor, aligned the Philippines more closely with China at the expense of the US, his country’s traditional ally....
...Many of the Philippines’ business-owning families are perceived as supporters of the liberal political camp allied with the late president Corazon Aquino....
...All three families have in the past supported the Liberal camp of Ms Aquino, associated with the colour yellow, which Mr Duterte swept aside after he took power in 2016....
...Flights into Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport, 85km from Taal, were grounded overnight and more than 500 flights cancelled....
...The Philippines built a nuclear plant on the Bataan peninsula near Manila during the rule of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, but it faced public opposition and the project was shelved when successor Corazon Aquino...
...technocratic appointees However, tensions persist between the president and the country’s business-owning dynasties, many of whom in the past supported the liberal camp associated with the late president Corazon Aquino...
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...Then president Benigno Aquino III took the issue to an arbitration court in The Hague in 2013....
...Mr Trillanes was pardoned in 2010 by Mrs Arroyo’s successor, Benigno Aquino III....
...Mr Trillanes was jailed for the “Oakwood Mutiny”, but won election to the Senate from behind bars in 2007, before being pardoned and freed by Benigno Aquino III, Mrs Arroyo’s successor, in 2010....
...Fittingly, we meet at the grand Morgan Library in midtown Manhattan, the former residence of the legendary banker John Pierpoint Morgan....
...But during the Aquino years, Heydarian writes, wealth failed to trickle down....
...“Credit them for ambition and a bit of audacity, but if you’re really going to judge Duterte on macroeconomic performance, I don’t think he’s done as well as the Arroyo or Aquino administration.”...
...The last two presidents, Benigno Aquino III and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, were both offspring of former presidents....
...The Philippines ratified the Rome Statute in 2011 under the presidency of Benigno Aquino III, Mr Duterte’s predecessor....
...The Philippines signed the Rome Statute under which the court operates in 2011 under Benigno Aquino, Mr Duterte’s predecessor as president....
...The government of Rodrigo Duterte has said it was launching a probe into the programme, pointing the finger of blame at the administration of Mr Duterte’s predecessor Benigno Aquino, which approved the vaccination...
...John Lee, who chairs the association, said the incentives would help achieve a goal of quadrupling sector revenue to $2.57bn by 2022....
...Several key government officials are being prosecuted or impeached, including Supreme Court chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, opposition senator Leila de Lima and former president Benigno Aquino III....
...John Forbes, a former US diplomat in the country, echoed this sentiment, saying it was really hard to tell how many of the cabinet secretaries would last....
...Existing investors in the country also find that the excessively tight rules on asset ownership make it hard for investors to recycle funds, according to John Walker, head of Asian infrastructure at Macquarie...
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