With a candidacy that was sparked by the public sympathy over the death of his mother, the country’s 15th president, Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III, is out to prove that he is not merely riding on his parents’ fame.
Mr. Aquino– the 50-year-old bachelor son of the late former president and democracy icon Corazon “Cory” C. Aquino and late former senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. — won the presidential race with a record 15.2 million votes or 42% of the ballots cast.

In an interview following his proclamation, he vowed to address particularly graft and corruption and a ballooning budget deficit. He also reiterated his opposition to new taxes as a way to solve the budget shortfall. “I am against aggressive new taxes like the tax on text which affects those who are belonging in the lower classes,” he said.

With a candidacy that was sparked by the public sympathy over the death of his mother, the country’s 15th president, Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III, is out to prove that he is not merely riding on his parents’ fame.
Mr. Aquino– the 50-year-old bachelor son of the late former president and democracy icon Corazon “Cory” C. Aquino and late former senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. — won the presidential race with a record 15.2 million votes or 42% of the ballots cast.
In an interview following his proclamation, he vowed to address particularly graft and corruption and a ballooning budget deficit. He also reiterated his opposition to new taxes as a way to solve the budget shortfall. “I am against aggressive new taxes like the tax on text which affects those who are belonging in the lower classes,” he said.

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino, III (born February 8, 1960) also known as Noynoy Aquino, is the fifteenth and incumbent President of the Philippines and is concurrently the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government.

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The supertanker Maran Centaurus and its 28-man crew, 16 of whom are Filipinos, were released by Somali pirates at 8:30 a.m. (Greece time) today 18 January and is now headed for Durban, South Africa, escorted by a Greek naval ship.
The Filipino crew released are as follows: Vincent M. Ombid; Marvin P. Montecillo; Movo T. Aragon; Allan Bayocboc; Salvador Quiocho; Paul Anthony Piraza; Ulysis T. Velasquez; Eric A. Castro; Fermin A. Panaligan, Jr.; Vincent C. Amante ; Lester C. Estrada ; Jessie B. Basalo; Ezemar Vlla Soreso ; Franscisco de Guzman ; Ronald F. Lecitivo; and Henry Suano.

The ordeal of 12 Filipino officers and seamen, as well as of the Ukranian and Montenegrin crew, manning the problematic Cayman Islands-registered Aetea Sierra will soon end with lawyers of the International Transport Federation (ITF) and the Philippine Embassy succeeding in convincing a Piraeus court to immediately settle the unpaid salaries of the ship’s crew and to undertake arrangements for the crew to leave the ship and return home.
Philippine Ambassador to Athens Rigoberto Tiglao had formally and strongly urged Greek authorities to allow the Filipino crewmen to immediately return home, with only a skeletal crew to remain on the ship.