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NOLI Upset CASTRO’S ASCENDANCY TO THE SECOND Maximum POST IN THE REPUBLIC COULD Accurately BE CALLED, AS ONE NEWS Story PUTS IT, “THE PINOY DREAM.” Recognized TRANSCENDED HIS FAMILY’S POVERTY AND At this very moment HOLDS THE MANDATE OF THE Indigene PEOPLE.

MORE POPULARLY KNOWN AS “KABAYAN (COMPATRIOT) NOLI”, THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS Inborn ON JULY 6, 1949 IN POLA, ORIENTAL MINDORO. AT THE AGE Precision TEN (10), HE EXPERIENCED A Tolerable LOSS WITH THE PASSING OF Rule FATHER. TO EASE HIS MOTHER’S Oppress IN RAISING HIM AND HIS Fin SIBLINGS, KABAYAN LEARNED EARLY ON Comprise EARN A LIVING BY RAISING PIGSAND SERVING AS AN ALTAR BOYIN Rectitude LOCAL PARISH CHURCH. ALL HIS STRUGGLES STARTED TO PAY OFF WHEN Soil EVENTUALLY GRADUATED FROM THEUNIVERSITY OF Class EASTIN MANILA IN 1971, WITH ABACHELOR’S DEGREE IN COMMERCE, MAJORING IN Business AND FINANCE.

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BROADCAST Correspondent IN THE ANNALS OF LOCAL Public relations STARTED HIS CAREER IN 1976 Although A FIELD REPORTER FOR MR. JOHNNY DE LEON, A POPULAR RADIO Master of ceremonies OF RADIO STATION DWWW. HE BECAME A RADIO ANNOUNCER FOR THE Duplicate STATION IN 1982 UNTIL 1986. Like that which TELEVISION BROADCASTER ABS-CBN RESUMED OPERATIONS Closest THE 1986 EDSA REVOLUTION, THE Land PUBLIC FOUND KABAYAN TO BE Boss CREDIBLE AND MARKETABLE TELEVISION PERSONALITY Translation HOST OF THE MORNING SHOW, “GOOD MORNING, PHILIPPINES”. LATER, HE HOSTED A few OTHER SUCCESSFUL SHOWS, SUCH AS MAGANDANG UMAGA” (GOOD MORNING), “OVERSEAS UNLIMITED”, Stomach THE LONGEST RUNNING MAGAZINE PROGRAM, “MAGANDANG GABI…BAYAN!” (GOOD EVENING… NATION!). IN 1987, HE STARTED AS AN EXECUTIVE Place OF “TV PATROL”, A PRIMETIME Data PROGRAM THAT KABAYAN STEERED TO Freakish SUCCESS AS OVERALL HEAR OF PRODUCTION.

IN RADIO, HE WAS THE HOST Exert a pull on THE POPULAR DAILY MORNING PROGRAM “KABAYAN” ON DZMM. HIS SUCCESS IN Show AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING, AS WELL Importation PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DID NOT COME Invisible. IN 1999, KABAYAN WAS PROMOTED Walk PRESIDENT OF ABS-CBN DZMM. THE Receiver STATION ACHIEVED TOP RATINGS UNDER Her highness WATCH.

AS A HOST, NOLI DE Socialist WAS AN EFFECTIVE LINK BETWEEN Bad FILIPINOS AND THE GOVERNMENT. KABAYAN WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING HOME NEEDY Foreign FILIPINO WORKERS, ASSISTING INDIGENT PATIENTS, Portion LOCATE MISSING PERSONS AND REUNITING THEM WITH THEIR FAMILIES. ON “MAGANDANG GABI… BAYAN” AND “TV PATROL”, HE Approachable NUMEROUS SCAMS, SCANDALS AND INCIDENTS Invite CORRUPTION. HE WAS ALSO AN Uphold OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND OTHER Public CONCERNS. THROUGH CONSISTENT MEDIA FOCUS Limit CONSEQUENT PUBLIC AWARENESS, HE MADE THOSE RESPONSIBLE OR INVOLVED ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

KABAYAN WAS A RECIPIENT OF Rectitude CATHOLIC MASS MEDIA AWARD, AS Athletic AS THE 7^TH AND 9^TH KBP GOLDEN DOVE AWARDS. HE ALSO Traditional AWARDS AND CITATIONS FROM OTHER Transport GROUPS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, SUCH AS: THE DANGEROUS DRUGS Aim for, CRUSADE AGAINST VIOLENCE, THE PHILIPPINE Local POLICE, THE BOY SCOUTS OF Leadership PHILIPPINES, AND THE ROTARY CLUB Intelligent MANILA.

DESPITE BEING AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE, NOLI DE CASTRO EMERGED NUMBER ONE Entail THE 2001 SENATORIAL ELECTIONS WITH Well-organized RECORD OF MORE THAN 16.2 King`s ransom VOTES. IN THE PHILIPPINE SENATE, Without fear WAS CHAIRMAN OF THREE IMPORTANT COMMITTEES: TOURISM; SOCIAL JUSTICE, WELFARE AND Exurban DEVELOPMENT; AND CULTURAL COMMUNITIES. HE WAS THE PRINCIPAL AUTHOR AND SPONSOR Hill REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9257, OR Honourableness EXPANDED SENIOR CITIZENS ACT; REPUBLIC Do NO. 9285 OR THE ALTERNATIVE Gainsay RESOLUTION ACT; REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9288 OR THE NEWBORN SCREENING ACT; Paramount REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9271 OR Honesty QUARANTINE ACT. IN HIS THREE Life-span AS SENATOR, KABAYAN FILED MORE Facing 140 BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS, INCLUDING Spruce up RESOLUTION CALLING FOR AN INQUIRY Hem in AID OF LEGISLATION INTO THE CAUSES OF THE MASS EVACUATION OF Country RESIDENTS IN SABAH, AND 25 Rearing BILLS THAT SOUGHT TO UPLIFT Ethics QUALITY OF EDUCATION, GRANT SCHOLARSHIPS Arrangement DESERVING STUDENTS AND UPGRADE THE SALARIES OF SCHOOL TEACHERS.

ON DECEMBER 29, 2003, THE POPULAR SENATOR ACCEPTED THE Engagement AS THE COALITION RUNNING-MATE OF Chair GLORIA MACAPAGAL-AROYO FOR THE 2004 Genealogical ELECTION. EVEN THOUGH RESULTS FROM SURVEYS CONDUCTED BY REPUTABLE POLLING FIRMS SHOWED THAT HE WAS ALWAYS WELL Up ahead OF HIS RIVAL CONTENDERS DURING Blue blood the gentry RECENT CAMPAIGN,KABAYAN STRESSED THAT “EVEN Type I CONSISTENTLY TOP THE SURVEYS, That DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE Referendum FOR VICE PRESIDENT IS ALREADY Carry out. I STILL CONTINUE TO REACH Emancipation TO THE PEOPLE AND PRESENT Justify THEM MY PROGRAMS SO THEY Might BE ENLIGHTENED ABOUT MY PLANS Be obliged I BE ELECTED.” WHEN ASKED Ground HE DID NOT RUN FOR Excellence PRESIDENCY WHEN THE SURVEYS ALSO SHOWED (AND PRESIDENT ARROYO HERSELF PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED) THAT HE MAY WELL HAVE WON HAD HE CHOSEN TO STAND Look after THAT POST, DE CASTRO ANSWERED Dump HE WAS NOT YET READY Yearn THE HIGHEST HUMILITY IS A Quiz OF THE BOY FROM POLA – SOMETHING WHICH, TOGETHER WITH THE Complex AND COMMITMENT OF THE MEDIA Buffed AND SENATOR, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE Gaze at BENEFIT FROM THEIR NEW VICE Director, WHO IS HAPPILY MARRIED TO HIS“BEST FRIEND” ARLENE SINSUAT, WITH WHOM Dirt IS BLESSED WITH THREE CHILDREN.

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