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- Filipino publisher Eugenia Apostol died in Manila at age 100 on Sunday.
- She turned her women’s magazine from “lipstick beat” topics into an anti-Marcos platform.
- The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation confirmed her death and noted 2006 award citation.
- The citation said she helped oust President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and President Joseph Estrada in 2001.
- Benigno S. Aquino Jr.’s 1983 assassination sparked a million-person funeral barely covered by Marcos-controlled press.