Manila, Philippines, December 5, 2007 - For kart racers Matteo Guidicelli, Tyson Sy, Mark Bumgarner and race car driver Enzo Pastor, they spotted at the SM Mall of Asia food court a day before the opening ceremony of the 24th Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
Besides Guidicelli, Sy, Bumgarner and Pastor is Ambassador Marciano Paynor, Jr., he arrived at the mall at past noontime
It recall when Ambassador Paynor was at the Philippine International Convention Center he speak to reporters during the ambush interview that it cited the live airing of 2007 Nakhon Ratchasima Southeast Asian Games would be compared to the December 2000 to January 2001 Senate impeachment trial of former president Joseph Estrada that sparked the Second EDSA People Power Revolution that led to his fall from power and the installation of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as president from January 17 to 20, 2001, January 12 to 16, 1995 Manila visit of Pope John Paul II for the 10th World Youth Day and 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took her oath of office as 14th President of the Republic of the Philippines at 12:20 p.m., January 20, 2001, following the effective resignation of former president Estrada.
The former president and his family packed up and left Malacañang at around 2:15 this afternoon on a barge that crossed Pasig River. The Estradas are currently at the family residence in 1 Polk Street, Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila.
On February 4, 2006, a stampede at the first anniversary of Wowowee, ABS-CBN's successful noontime show, claimed 74 lives. The dead were all fans of the show. They were mainly poor. They had come to win millions in prizes promised for the celebration at the Ultra in Pasig City.
On September 12, the special division of the Sandiganbayan convicted Estrada on two out of four counts of plunder.
On October 19, 2007, an explosion in Glorietta 2 left eleven people dead and injured more than a hundred. Initially, authorities said that it was caused by a liquefied petroleum gas explosion at a restaurant, but later began investigating the possibility that the explosion may have been a C-4 bomb.
He was accepted on October 25, 2007 the full pardon granted by President Arroyo.
