Philippines: Is Aquino prepared to take on private armies?
Philippines: Is Aquino prepared to take on private armies?
Philippines: Bangsamoro’s Village Elections Point to a Long Path to Peace
Philippines: Bangsamoro’s Village Elections Point to a Long Path to Peace
Op-Ed / Asia 1 minute

Philippines: Is Aquino prepared to take on private armies?

The Philippines has done something right. The success of last week's election confounded doomsayers and gave the country an achievement to be proud of. It is not so much that voters chose the untested Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino by a wide margin. It is rather that the country as a whole took a chronic problem, election fraud, and came up with the solution - automated elections. ..

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