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Ballsy & Pinky on Ninoy: ‘Our first Superhero’

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | August 19, 2015 - 10:00am

When they were little girls, Ballsy and Pinky Aquino couldn’t understand why their father put “country before family,” why he made them give gifts on their birthdays instead of the other way around,...

Newsmakers

‘History & Her Story’ (Remembering Cory Aquino on her 5th death anniversary)

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | July 29, 2014 - 12:00am

Cory Aquino was wearing fuchsia, not yellow, the last time I interviewed her.

Newsmakers

P-Noy on losing his father: ‘We lost the captain, we lost the rudder, we lost everything’

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | August 18, 2013 - 12:00am

To a grateful nation, he is the martyr whose death sparked a conflagration that gutted the Marcos dictatorship and restored democracy in the Philippines. To the widow he left behind, he “was a loving husband...

Allure

Ninoy Aquino and the woman he loved

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | August 21, 2012 - 12:00am

(I wrote this piece on Ninoy Aquino’s 20th death anniversary nine years ago.)

Newsmakers

Ballsy defends Noy

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | August 1, 2012 - 12:00am

On the eve of President Corazon Aquino’s third death anniversary, her eldest daughter Ballsy Cruz defended her brother, President Aquino, for his outspokenness on certain issues.

Headlines

A beautiful wedding for Ballsy Aquino

By Norma Japitana | June 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Maria Elena Aquino was 16 when Martial Law was declared and her father, the late Sen. Benigno Aquino, was imprisoned.

Entertainment

'What a mother she was and she still is'

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | January 25, 2011 - 12:00am

When Cory Aquino and her daughters visited South Africa after her presidency, another democracy icon, Nelson Mandela, took her eldest daughter Ballsy Cruz aside and told her: “You certainly know how to...

Newsmakers

Cory's final wish: To go home

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | January 25, 2011 - 12:00am

Corazon Aquino’s last birthday wish was not for herself. Today would have been the 78th birthday of the former President....

News Commentary

'Noynoy has come out of his shell'

By Aurea Calica | April 18, 2010 - 12:00am

Maria Elena “Ballsy” Aquino-Cruz, eldest sister of Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, told The STAR yesterday that her brother is coming out of his shell and he...

Headlines

Noynoy's strength

By Joanne Rae M. Ramirez | September 10, 2009 - 12:00am

Presidential bet Sen. Noynoy Aquino would have not crossed the Rubicon, so to speak, without the love and support of the women who have loved him the longest — his sisters.

Newsmakers