Monthly Archive for September 2010

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 [...]