But her relationship with her brother was not always smooth. It's easy to imagine that Kris's flair for the dramatic would not have always been met well by her stoic older brother. Kris herself has been open about their many disagreements. In , for instance, their relationship strained in the months following Kris's own feud with journalist Korina Sanchez, wife of Noynoy's close political ally and friend Mar Roxas. Speaking at his wake, Kris said that they had "made their peace" before he died.
She was the one who placed his urn in the tomb next to their parents. After avoiding long-term jobs in favor of travelling the world, Amanda finally learned to commit when she joined Rappler in July As a lifestyle and entertainment reporter, she writes about music, culture, and the occasional showbiz drama. She also hosts Rappler Live Jam, where she sometimes tries her best not to fan-girl on camera.
Amanda T. These are the sisters that Noynoy Aquino left behind:. Ballsy Aquino-Cruz. Pinky Aquino-Abellada. Pinky is married to Manuel Abellada.
They have two children, Miguel and Nina. Viel Aquino-Dee. In he won a seat in the Senate. In his mother died of cancer and again, tens of thousands of Filipinos surged onto the streets to show their love for the Aquino family. After a landslide victory in , he took charge of a country struggling with widespread corruption, poverty and ageing infrastructure.
But he also played down the expectations heaped on him, warning that a president would have to be "Superman and Einstein combined" to solve the country's problems immediately.
Months after taking office, Aquino suffered his first crisis, when a former policeman held a bus filled with Hong Kong tourists hostage in central Manila. The incident was broadcast live around the world, and ended badly with the hijacker killing eight hostages before he was shot dead by police. Aquino's government was heavily criticised for its handling of the siege. Aquino has been credited with pushing through key economic reforms and for his attempts to root out corruption, though critics have said he did not do enough to help the poor.
In December , Aquino signed the controversial Reproductive Health Bill into law, which had languished for years in Congress before it was passed by lawmakers. The law provided universal access to contraception, fertility control, sexual education and maternal care. Though it was met with fierce criticism in the Philippines, which has a majority Catholic population, experts said the law helped women and managed population growth. With Aquino as the chief architect of Philippine foreign policy, the country filed its arbitration case against China over claims in the South China Sea in In July , the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in favour of the Philippines, invalidating China's territorial claims.
Beijing rejected the verdict, but the move won Aquino popular support with Filipinos. Under the constitution he was unable to stand for another term in elections that year, and was succeeded in office by the populist Rodrigo Duterte. We will also launch a scholarship and endowment fund campaign, using the renaming of the school as the anchor.
ASoG is at a turning point at which we can leverage our achievements thus far so as to catapult it to a next stage of growth and influence. From graduates and a student population of less than when I took over on , we now are graduating MPM graduates the latter if we include our joint program with the Development Academy of the Philippines and a student population of students which includes the DAP MRD students.
We also have a growing PHD Leadership program with 20 students, two of who will graduate next year.
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