Benigno S Aquino III
President Benigno S Aquino III Occaion of Visit at Basilica of Mission Dolores Church
Thanksgiving Mass of the Filipino Community on the Occasion of the Visit of H.E. President Benigno S Aquino III held at the Basilica of the Mission Dolores Parish Church located the corner of Dolores St and 16th St. San Francisco, Ca 94114 on September 26, 2010 (3:00 p.m.). It was attended by more than 5,000 people.
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Benigno Aquino III has been sworn in as president, the country's 15th, after winning election in May by a landslide. He secured more than 15 million votes, about 5.7 million more than his closest competitor, one-time president Joseph Estrada, in a vote viewed
as a litmus test for the country's democracy. There were nine candidates in all.
You can associate Aquino with a familiar color -- yellow. He is the son of two revered figures in Philippine life, former president Corazon Aquino and her husband, Benigno.
Inaugural address of President Benigno Aquino III
Aquino being proclaimed as the President-elect of the Philippines by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Prospero Nograles at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City on June 9, 2010.
U.S. apologizes for upside-down display of Philippine flag
An inverted flag, as displayed behind President Aquino when he met with President Obama and other ASEAN leaders, implies a state of war. But it was just 'an honest mistake,' said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Rebecca Thompson.
In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 and released on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 by Malacanang Photo Bureau in Manila, Philippines, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, right, and U.S.President Barack Obama attend a news conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York following the US-ASEAN meeting. The U.S. government on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010 said it made an "honest mistake" when it displayed an inverted Philippine flag, center right, which wrongfully signified that the Southeast Asian nation was in a state of war, in a meeting hosted by President Barack Obama.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact agreement signing ceremony with PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, on September 23, 2010.