Here’s an excerpt from my latest CNET Asia blog post.
On September 9, which marked the 40th day of the death of former Philippine president and democracy icon Corazon “Cory” Aquino, her son Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III announced that he would continue the fight for democracy by running in the 2010 presidential elections.
Many Filipino Internet users eagerly awaited the senator’s announcement, monitoring and sharing the coverage of his press conference on microblogging sites such as Plurk and Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook.
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