Benigno ¡°Noynoy¡± Aquino III, the former Philippine president who oversaw the fastest period of growth since the 1970s and challenged China¡¯s expansive territorial claims before a United Nations-backed tribunal, has died. He was 61.
Aquino, who served as the nation¡¯s president from 2010 to 2016, was rushed to a hospital in Quezon City where he died after heart failure, the Manila Bulletin reported on Thursday, citing his family.
A bachelor with a weakness for cigarettes and computer games who had spent much of his life in the shadow of his parents ¡ª icons of Philippine democracy ¡ª Aquino had said he didn¡¯t aspire to lead the nation.
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