Since poets do no better financially in the Philippines than anywhere else, Diosdado Macapagal’s family was often hungry. As a child, Diosdado tended the big, black water buffaloes that are the ...

(One president in the family is enough.) Three political families have produced six of the country's 17 presidents: Diosdado Macapagal and his daughter Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

She returned to China in 1976 with her father, Diosdado Pangan Macapagal, who served as Philippine president from 1961 to 1965, and other family members. She later traveled frequently between the ...

Philippine presidents, from Jose Laurel to Diosdado Macapagal to Joseph Ejercito Estrada ... opened her own restaurant using the name her family made famous and its inimitable menu consisting ...

Overall, it will be a fifth term for Arroyo, an economist and daughter of the late president Diosdado Macapagal. She had served in various government offices before becoming the country's second ...

LET us put things into perspective. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), daughter of the late President Diosdado Macapagal, entered government service in 1987 as assistant secretary (later undersecretary) ...