Tag: death

• Goodbye….

  

  Two were lost last weekend: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s bout with Floyd Mayweather, and Evangeline Escobillo’s life. “Tita Vangie,” as I have called her after we have moved on from our source and reporter roles to being friends, was always full of life that it is hard to imagine she is no longer alive. I…

  Lala Rimando

  8 May 2015

  Career, Governance, Journalism, Journalism award, Memorable interviews, Personal

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• Letting Go

  

  When we first broke the story that former President Cory Aquino was suffering from colon cancer, I made up my mind to let her go. Her strength and integrity as a person far overwhelms her shortcomings as a transition leader in the 80’s. She has lived a full life and her place in history is…

  Lala Rimando

  9 Oct 2010

  Cory Aquino, Manila’s Who’s Who, Personal

  Cory Aquino, death, personal