Know more about the $434-million compact agreement signed by the Aquino government and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation: Official Factsheet MCC Official Press Release Statement of Ambassador Harry Thomas on the MCC compact signing

Here are the full texts of the remarks made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Benigno Aquino III at the signing of the $434 M compact agreement between the Philippine government and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, held Sept. 23 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. You may view the video [...]

President Benigno S. Aquino III arrives in the United States Tuesday morning (Sept. 21, 6:00 pm in Manila) for his first  overseas trip as chief executive. The Department of Foreign Affairs said that Aquino’s US itinerary includes: A speech before United Nations General Assembly A meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Bilateral meetings with leaders [...]

A bishop writes President Aquino to demand his government’s action on the assassination of Benjie Bayles. This letter is an impassioned plea for a justice, and asks the President to sympathize with the victims in the same way the nation condoled with his family in 1983, when his father was gunned down upon his return [...]

President Aquino today signed Proclamation No. 23 designating August 25, 2010 as a “national day of mourning” for the victims of Monday’s tragic hostage-taking incident at Quirino Grandstand, the historic site of his and other previous presidents’ inaugurals.