Ram Felix Rengel, Jr.
This section of my blog contains some personalities (individuals) that have made an impact in the Philippines and abroad. These individuals are Pinoys and Pinoys-at-heart who have made the Philippines proud. This is my way of showcasing the distinct Pinoy's character to the whole world.
President Corazon Aquino
President of the Republic of the Philippines since February 25, 1986, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, has experienced praise and faced adversity with courage and directness.
Business Tycoon Lucio Tan
Lucio Tan is the richest industrialist in the Philippines, with a personal net worth of at least $1.5 billion. Known to be shrewd but secretive and reclusive, Tan has extensive investments in China and Hong Kong.
Housemate Sam Milby
At 21, not so tall, but handsome and engaging Sam Lloyd Milby is a prized catch for ABS-CBN and Star Cinema -- probably the only genuine showbiz find in the first edition of Pinoy Big Brother last year.
Kabayan Noli de Castro
Noli de Castro's ascendancy to the second highest post in the republic could rightly be called, as one news report puts it, "the pinoy dream." He transcended his family's poverty and now holds the mandate of the Filipino people.
Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928), military hero of the 1986 People Power Revolution that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, became the 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines on June 30, 1992. He succeeded Corazon Aquino and governed until 1998, when he was succeeded by Joseph Estrada. His six-year term as president was widely recognized in building economic and political growth and stability in the country despite facing communist insurgencies, an Islamic separatist movement in Mindanao and the onslaught of the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
Philippine Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr.
Partisan politics is the public face of democracy, the most visible manifestation of political liberty. It thrives in the Philippines. Yet in the Philippines and everywhere else, as we know, the liberty of partisan politics depends ultimately upon restraints imposed by law and by the authority of governing institutions. Few people understand this paradox of freedom better than Hilario G. Davide Jr., chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
