On reading the title, you probably thought that President Benigno Aquino 3rd has finally issued an apology to Hong Kong for the hostage-taking tragedy in August 2010. But he has not.

I’m referring rather to the President’s apology for the government’s slow and inadequate response to the Yolanda disaster last November and the still halting and erratic effort for East Visayas’s recovery and reconstruction. Aquino issued the apology in reply to a student from Tacloban City during an open forum.