Topic: Imelda Marcos

Tweet . A leading missionary priest has claimed that celibacy will soon be a thing of the past - and described it as a 'business arrangement' for...

Philippines rules out hero's burial for Marcos

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ruled out burying the frozen remains of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Manila's cemetery for national heros, a government spokeswoman said Saturday.Local reports this month said Vice President Jejomar Binay had recommended Aquino allow Marcos ...

Victims protest military honours for Marcos

Torture victims of the brutal regime of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos were angered Monday over reported plans to bury the strongman's frozen remains with full military honours.President Benigno Aquino, whose parents were democracy heroes who fought the Marcos rule ...

Retail Therapy: Shoe signs of spring

This exuberant little number is by Miss L Fire, a kicky British shoe brand. The moment I spotted it at Imelda (123 Roncesvalles Ave., 647-344-1006)...
A Philippine court said Monday it had ordered Imelda Marcos to return by next month nearly $280,000 in state funds stolen by her then-dictator husband nearly three decades ago.The anti-graft Sandiganbayan court said Marcos had 30 days from April 5 ...

'Almost perfect' wasn't perfect enough

0 . Tale of the Tiger Parents: Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who was head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, is being honored at the April 9 Cal...
Imelda Marcos was jubilant Tuesday after the the Philippines' highest court returned a beachfront mansion that was seized by the government when a 1986 popular revolt toppled her dictator husband.The 81-year-old widow said she planned to bring in renovators to the ...
Philippine court orders return of Marcos mansion, says no evidence it was ill-gottenFormer Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos has welcomed as a Christmas gift a court decision to return one of the sprawling mansions the government seized from her after her husband ...

Ex-Brooklyn pol Solarz dies at 70

Stephen Solarz, a nine-term Democratic congressman from Brooklyn who became a leading voice on foreign affairs, died Monday in a Washington...

10 Tips for Packing Light

In 1940s films, characters board steamships with an army of porters to lug their many bulky suitcases. But in today's age of airline travel, that...