Leni Robredo

Fighting the good fight: Filipinas who made history

March is officially designated as National Women's Month in the Philippines as part of the worldwide celebration of International Women’s Day. To all our mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, female friends and the many other heroines in our lives, this one's for you. In this gallery, PeopleAsia honors nine Filipinas who have pushed for every woman's rightful…

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From grieving widow to leading lady: Vice President Leni Robredo

Vice President Robredo has graced PeopleAsia's covers twice; first in 2012 as a mother and widow in search of understanding and God's grace, then a second time this year in PeopleAsia's latest issue as the Philippines' highest ranking female public servant. When asked how she intended to uphold her husband’s legacy in an interview in 2012, she…

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Leni Robredo: ‘The Good Vice’ on PeopleAsia

The 'Good Vice' is on PeopleAsia: First featured in the magazine as a widow in 2012, Leni Robredo returns on the cover of PeopleAsia's October-November 2016 issue as she rises as the duly elected Vice President of the Philippines. Grab your copies from your favorite bookstores and newsstands starting this…

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Vice President Leni Robredo: Destined

By JOSE PAOLO S. DELA CRUZ She was a wife with no plans of being widowed; a widow with no plans of running for Congress; a congresswoman with no plans of running for vice president. But like many reluctant heroes, Maria Leonor Gerona Robredo would soon learn, that life isn’t…

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13 Truths I Learned from life

By BUM D. TENORIO JR. Positively charged. That’s who and what I am. Life taught me to be like that. I am a blessing hunter because life taught me to never be lackadaisical in finding a miracle or two, big or small, wherever I am, whatever I do. Even in…

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Leni Robredo: A Lady of Legacy

Long before she topped the Vice-Presidential surveys, Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo has already been a woman whose ultimate style is in her substance. Read more about her in this exclusive story from 2013. Text by BüM D. TENORIO JR.  Photography by MAU MAURICIO  A miracle worker she is not.…

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