Former President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III (Robert Viñas/Malacañang Photo Bureau/Noynoy Aquino’s Facebook page) The untimely demise of Aquino, “who had lived his life with honesty, integrity, and simplicity so that others may simply live, is a great loss not only to his family but to the Filipino nation as well, particularly those whose lives he had touched,” the resolution read. The measure also cited the achievements of the 15th Philippine President, “the most significant of which was the Philippines’ gallant stand and victory against economic giant China when the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague ruled that China had no claim to the reef within Philippine territorial waters.”