For his business achievements, he was made cover story in the Far Eastern Economic Review. And his life story was also featured in Asiaweek, Forbes, AsiaMoney and Asian Business Review.
He garnered various awards such as the Ten Outstanding Young Men Award (1986) by the Philippine Jaycees, Agora Award for Outstanding Achievement in Marketing Management (1989), Most Outstanding CPA by the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1990) and Most Outstanding UP Alumnus (1991).
Manuel “Manny” Bamba Villar, Jr. (born December 13, 1949) is a Filipino businessman and politician. He is the President of the Nacionalista Party and a member of the Senate of the Philippines. Villar was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2000—in which capacity he presided over the impeachment of President Joseph Estrada—as well as President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. Read more
MANILA, Philippines – House Speaker Prospero Nograles is calling all pro-administration parties to field a common standard bearer for 2010 presidential elections, as negotiations to merge Lakas-CMD and Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi) near collapse.
In her report in GMA News’ 24 Oras Thursday, Maki Pulido said the merger of Lakas and Kampi seems impossible to attain before 2010 elections. Instead, Arroyo allies are now working to have a common presidential candidate to make pro-administration coalition parties intact.
MANILA, Philippines – Business tycoon and former ambassador Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco has revealed that the party he founded in 1992, the Nationalist Peoples’ Coalition (NPC), will field either Senator Loren Legarda or her colleague Sen. Francis Escudero as the party’s standard bearer in 2010 presidential elections.
Cojuangco made the announcement during the NPC Christmas party, which was also attended by heads of other political parties such as Speaker Prospero Nograles, president of Lakas-CMD, and Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte, president of Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino or Kampi.
Benjamin Nillo, Las Piñas City: Although he’s a good man, I won’t vote for Noli de Castro as the next president. He is not an intellectual and will not make an efficient leader.
Edward Perdido, Ilocos Norte: Yes, I’m very convinced that he’ll be a good president since he is doing his appointed job with results. I think it’s enough basis and training for him to be the president.
If Senate President Manny Villar is so sure about the legality, morality and beneficiality of the second P200 million allocated for the C-5 road extension project, then he should waste no time in seeking its immediate release. Then, let his critics try to stop the faster completion of the project through the courts. This issue of double entry and conflict of interest is certain to hound him until 2010 unless he acts decisively by asking the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to release the second P200 million for the project.
SP Villar has already been cleared of the “double entry” issue by the Senate Committee on Finance headed by Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile. JPE, whom I consider the busiest senator in both committee and plenary works, said the addition of P200 million to the initial P200 million proposed by Malacañang for the C-5 road extension project, was done without any intent to profit financially from the double entry.
When Rep. Joker Ar-royo of the first con-gressional district of Makati was robbed of the speakership in June 1998, he asked some investigative journalist to dig deeper into information he received about an alleged land-grabbing incident in the hilly town of Norzagaray in Bulacan, right beside the foothills of the Sierra Madre. He had information that behind the supposed land-grabbing was the Villar couple, Manuel, soon to be proclaimed Speaker of the House by the grace of the newly-elected president of the land, Joseph Ejercito Estrada, and his wife Cynthia.
On August 17, 1998 Joker Arroyo spoke before his peers and charged the new Speaker with violations of the Constitution and the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, or R.A. 3019, in all of ten specific instances. The fourth charge of corruption stated by Arroyo was about the Capitol Bank’s receipt of financial accommodations from the Bangko Sentral between 1992 and 1998, when Mrs. Cynthia Villar was its CEO, and her husband Manuel was a congressman from Las Piñas, and now, Speaker of the House.
The Philippine Senate President Manuel Villar has confirmed that he will run for the president of the country in the upcoming May 2010 elections, local media reported Thursday.
Attending a private party on Wednesday night, Villar told TV news network ABS-CBN News that there is “no turning back” once he decided to run for the top executive post.
Villar, president of the country’s oldest political party Nacionalista Party, said he still has to consult his friends and allies on who will be running in his ticket for 2010.
MEMBERS of the Solariega Homeowners Association called Sen. Manny Villar arrogant for not meeting with them when he visited Davao City on Sunday.
Homeowners headed by Jerry Napalit, its president, and Bill Martin, president of the Davao City Homeowners Federation, claimed Villar snubbed them when they tried to seek an audience with the senator Sunday morning at The Marco Polo Davao.
Napalit said they wanted to air their problems related to housing but instead were shocked to hear what Villar told them.
