ARNOLD CLAVIO
Biography In his elementary and high school days, he has been an active member of the editorial staff of his school's organ. In college, he took up Journalism in the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters or UST-AB. Right after graduation, he worked as a news writer at DWIZ, and after a year transferred as a radio field reporter to GMA Network's flagship radio station, DZBB. In 1994, he was offered a reporter's slot in Brigada Siete, joining the late Louie Beltran and Jessica Soho, this was Igan's very 1st TV show on GMA. He was given the top prize by the Department of Health in their Philippine AIDS-STD Media Awards for his report on Sarah Jane Salazar in 1995. The Asian Broadcasting Union also awarded his Abu Sayyaf coverage for DZBB as the Best Reportage of a Crisis in the same year. In 1999, his radio program Dobol A sa Dobol B was named Best Public Affairs Program on Radio by the KBP Golden Dove Awards. In 1996, he became the host of Emergency, the late night news and public affairs program formerly hosted by Edu Manzano. He also one of the hosts of the network's early morning news and lifestyle program, Unang Hirit. On March 15, 2004, he replaced Mike Enriquez to be the co-anchor of Saksi. In November 2004, he co-hosted Eat Bulaga Silver Special, which was a co-production of TAPE Productions and GMA News and Public Affairs, with his co-host in Unang Hirit, Rhea Santos. In March 2009, he was now on of the host of Case Unclosed which replaced from original host Kara David. In September 2009, he also become a guest newscaster for 24 Oras: Special Edition with fellow Saksi anchor Vicky Morales. It aired on weekends and was about a special newscast after the Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, and the Maguindanao massacre. In March 2010, he became the host of Kandidato, a public affairs talk show conducting an interview with a presidential candidate who will become the next President. In April 2010, he hosted Tonight with Arnold Clavio . A primetime talk show aired on Q (TV network) and it was aired also on GMA News TV . In May 2010, Igan was given a new public service program entitled Rescue. In February 2011, Igan became a solo newscast on Balita Pilipinas. On March 15, 2012, the Philippine Football Federation lodged a formal complaint with the GMA Network regarding his allegedly "racist, discriminatory, libelous and malicious statements." Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Clavio Image:http://ph.images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?p=arnold+clavio&back=http%3A%2F%2Fph.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Darnold%2Bclavio%26fr%3Dyfp-t-711&w=480&h=548&imgurl=3.bp.blogspot.com%2F_BpgCc7fXp28%2FS7WwtygU39I%2FAAAAAAAAGq4%2FIOpdNVr7OKI%2Fs1600%2FARNOLD%2BCLAVIO.JPG&size=19KB&name=ARNOLD%2BCLAVIO.JPG&rcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipilipinas.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DArnold_Clavio&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipilipinas.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DArnold_Clavio&type=&no=1&tt=110&oid=823957f5b838d093ea1927c5a6fa0b5a&tit=Arnold+Clavio+-+WikiPilipinas%3A+The+Hip+%26%2339%3Bn+Free+Philippine+Encyclopedia&sigr=11pm8d9vg&sigi=12qdivkm5&sigb=127rqncaj&fr=yfp-t-711 |
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BENIGNO AQUINO SR.
Benigno Servillano "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr.
was a Filipino Senator and a former Governor of Tarlac. Aquino, together with Gerry Roxas and Jovito Salonga, formed the leadership of the opposition to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. Shortly after the imposition of Martial Law, he was arrested in 1973 along with other dissidents and incarcerated for seven years. Aquino was permitted to travel to the United States for medical treatment following a heart attack. He was assassinated at the Manila International Airport in 1983 upon returning from his self-imposed exile. His death catapulted his widow, Corazon Aquino, into the political limelight, and prompted her to run for President as member of the UNIDO party in the 1986 snap elections. Among other public structures, Manila International Airport has since been renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honour, and the anniversary of his death is a national holiday. Early life and career Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. was born in Concepcion, Tarlac, to a prosperous family of hacenderos (landlords), original owners of Hacienda Tinang, Hacienda Lawang and Hacienda Murcia.[6] His grandfather, Servillano Aquino, was a general in the revolutionary army of Emilio Aguinaldo.[7] His father, Benigno S. Aquino, Sr. (1894–1947) was the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the World War II Japanese collaborationist government of José P. Laurel. His father was one of two politicians representing Tarlac during his lifetime. The other was Jose Cojuangco, father of his future wife. His mother, Doña Aurora Aquino-Aquino, was also his father's third cousin. His father died while Ninoy was in his teens prior to coming to trial on treason charges resulting from his collaboration with the Japanese during the occupation.[citation needed] Aquino was educated in private schools--St. Joseph's College, Ateneo de Manila, National University, and De La Salle College. He finished high school at San Beda College. Aquino took his tertiary education at the Ateneo de Manila to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree, but he interrupted his studies.[8] According to one of his biographies, he considered himself to be an average student; his grade was not in the line of 90s nor did it fall into the 70s. At age 17, he was the youngest war correspondent to cover the Korean War for the newspaper The Manila Times of Joaquin "Chino" Roces. Because of his journalistic feats, he received the Philippine Legion of Honor award from President Elpidio Quirino at age 18. At 21, he became a close adviser to then defense secretary Ramon Magsaysay. Aquino took up law at the University of the Philippines, where he became a member of Upsilon Sigma Phi, the same fraternity as Ferdinand Marcos. He interrupted his studies again however to pursue a career in journalism. According to Maximo Soliven, Aquino "later 'explained' that he had decided to go to as many schools as possible, so that he could make as many new friends as possible."[8] In early 1954, he was appointed by President Ramon Magsaysay, his wedding sponsor to his 1953 wedding at the Our Lady of Sorrows church in Pasay with Corazon Cojuangco, to act as personal emissary to Luis Taruc, leader of the Hukbalahap rebel group. After four months of negotiations, he was credited for Taruc's unconditional surrender[9] and was given a second Philippine Legion of Honor award with the degree of Commander on October 14, 1954.[10] He became mayor of Concepcion in 1955 at the age of 22.[11] Political career Aquino gained an early familiarity with Philippine politics, as he was born into one of the Philippines' prominent oligarchic clans. His grandfather served under President Aguinaldo, while his father held office under Presidents Quezon and Jose P. Laurel. As a consequence, Aquino was able to be elected mayor when he was 22 years old. Five years later, he was elected the nation's youngest vice-governor at 27, despite having no real executive experience. Two years later he became governor of Tarlac province in 1961 at age 29, then secretary-general of the Liberal Party in 1966. In 1967 he became the youngest elected senator in the country's history at age 34.[citation needed] In 1968, during his first year as senator, Aquino alleged that Marcos was on the road to establishing "a garrison state" by "ballooning the armed forces budget", saddling the defense establishment with "overstaying generals" and "militarizing our civilian government offices"—all these caveats were uttered barely four years before martial law, as was typical of the accusatory style of political confrontation at the time. However, no evidence was ever produced for any of these statements.[citation needed] Aquino became known as a constant critic of the Marcos regime, as his flamboyant rhetoric had made him a darling of the media. His most polemical speech, "A Pantheon for Imelda", was delivered on February 10, 1969. He assailed the Cultural Center, the first project of First Lady Imelda Marcos as extravagant, and dubbed it "a monument to shame" and labelled its designer "a megalomaniac, with a penchant to captivate". By the end of the day, the country's broadsheets had blared that he labelled the President's wife, his cousin Paz's former ward, and a woman he had once courted, "the Philippines' Eva Peron". President Marcos is said to have been outraged and labelled Aquino "a congenital liar". The First Lady's friends angrily accused Aquino of being "ungallant". These so-called "fiscalization" tactics of Aquino quickly became his trademark in the Senate. 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CARLOS ROMULO
Carlos P. Romulo was born in Camiling, Tarlac nine days after the first Philippine Republic was inaugurated in Malolos. He went to Camiling”s first public school, where he learned English. He discovered his inclination to writing while in high school. He produced and directed a play about Rizal, and nurtured a big ambition: to work as a reporter for a major English language newspaper. He realized his ambition soon enough – being appointed cub- reporter to the then popular Manila Times…but without salary. He proved himself deserving and became a regular reporter only three months after. He juggled his time between day - time classes and reporting work at night. He actively participated in campus politics at the State University. He edited the Varsity News. He once led a student demonstration against the Manila Times, protesting an editorial that questioned Ignacio Villamor’s qualification as the first Filipino president of the State University. At age 21. he was Cable New city editor, then assistant editor of the Citizen, a publication put up by Quezon as an alternative to the Philippines Free Press. From the University of the Philippines he obtained the Bachelor of Arts degree, and from Columbia University, the Master of Arts degree, at the age of twenty –three. He became Quezon’s personal secretary, and Associate Professor and Head of the UP Department of English. He gained much popularity as a member of the UP debating team on tour in the USA, leading it in garnering victories in almost all universities where he went. He resigned as Quezon’s secretary, and accepted the position pf Herald editor. But when Quezon and his group brought the paper, he felt the censorship waters beginning to rise like a tidal wave – and so he resigned as editor. Later, he became the editor of the Tribune and then Editor-in –Chief of the Taliba- La Vanguardia – Tribune triumvirate. He also served as a member of the Board of Regents of the State University. All this, at age thirty- one. The start of the Pacific War saw him as a major in the US Army handling the press activities of the Philippine government. He joined Quezon and General MacArthur in Corregidor, and through the airways, urged Filipinos to carry on the struggle against the Japanese forces. He escaped with Quezon to the US after Bataan fell, and served as Secretary of Public Instruction in Quezon’s war cabinet. Triumphantly, he returned to the country with Osmena, together with MacArthur and the US liberating forces in October 1944. Soon he was reunited with his family, and they journeyed to the US, where he campaigned to obtain support for Philippine recovery from the devastation of war in the US Congress. In 1945, he chaired the Philippine delegation to the United Nations’s first conference held in San Francisco. Although inexperienced in diplomacy, he moved everyone in the historic assembly to a standing ovation with his speech. He rode the crest of rising waters and espoused the rights of Third World countries, specially those still suffering under the yoke of colonization. In 1949, he brought honor and glory to the Philippines when he was elected president of the Forth General Assembly of the UN. Like a silent storm blowing in international and national scenes, he scored many diplomatic and personal victories. A recipient of 60 honorary degrees, he occupied many positions: Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of the United States, twice President of the UN Security Council, Envoy Extraordinary to Cuba and Brazil, Secretary of Education, and tenth President of the University of the Philippines. He became famous as a journalist when he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942. Years later, he was conferred the National Artist award in Literature. Among the books he authored were: I saw the Fall of the Philippines (1942), Mother America (1943), My Brother Americans (1945). I see the Philippines Rise (1946). Crusade in Asia (1955). The Magsaysay Story (1956), Mission to Asia: the Dialogue Begins (1964), and I Walked With Heroes (1961). Other publications he wrote were: Contemporary Nationalism and World Order; Identity and Change: Towards a National Definition; Evasion and Response; Clarifying the Asian Mystique; The University and External Aid; and In the Mainstream, of Diplomacy. Romulo married twice. His first wife, Virginia Llamas of Pagsanjan, Laguna, gave him four sons: Carlos Jr, Roberto, Gregorio and Ricardo. He was widowed in 1968. Ten years later, he married American writer Beth Day. Although physically small, Romulo had mastered the art of riding on the crest of huge waves of life. His was a long sea-surfing adventure. He lived to the age of eighty-seven. 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