Philippine news below the fold

The big news in the Philippines is that our lovely ex president Gloria has been stopped from going to visit a hospital in Malaysia yesterday. She was arrested in her hospital room for stealing an election.

Seventeen months after stepping down from the presidency, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday was served an arrest warrant for alleged electoral sabotage.

The Pampanga representative, once dubbed the “Iron Lady of Asia,” was in bed at a 16th-floor suite of St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City, wearing a hospital gown and a neck brace. The serving of the warrant capped a day of swift and unexpected developments.

You need to realize that there is a strict libel law here in the Philippines, and of course, reporters who get too nosy end up dead. So the whole story will have to come from an overseas source.

Here is TIME magazine's summary

she'll probably get off, of course, but it sends a warning to other politicians who play dirty.

In the meanwhile, we are still waiting for the politician indicted for the political hit job that killed our nephew to go to trial.