The bird flu outbreak is also on the front pages of many HongKongnewspapers and it coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak that killed at least 349 people on the mainland, triggering a global epidemic.
Oriental Daily News and other HongKongnewspapers recall how Mr Aquino also appeared to be smiling when responding to a botched rescue ofHongKong tourists taken hostage by a gunman in Manila in 2010, which led to the deaths of eight HongKong citizens.
The presses had already rolled for almost all of the newspapers coming out the next morning the last before the Chinese New Year when HongKong in effect shuts down for a few days, and the talk around the dinner table turns for once to family matters as well as business.