Islands of Good Governance (IGG) is a culminating report on the progress that has been made under President Aquino’s good governance program to be delivered at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in 2015.
Philippine officials were trying to negotiate a surrender of Muslim rebels who were holding more than 100 civilians hostage, as President Benigno Aquino III warned that his government would not hesitate to use force to end the five-day standoff. On Friday