President Benigno Aquino III went to California Sunday to meet potential investors and tour the facility of an energy-solution company owned by Ayala Corp., a Malacanang palace official said. Aquino and his entourage were expected to have lunch at an Ayala-owned mall and address the Philippine Development Foundation, formerly Ayala Foundation, said presidential deputy spokeswoman Abigail Valte. She did not say if Aquino was to meet Filipinos in California but it is traditional for Philippine leaders to meet Filipino groups in their visit to other countries. – GMANews.TV Valte said the California visit kicked off the second leg of his trip to the United States before he comes home before dawn Tuesday. “They are expected to arrive home ... at 3 A.M.,” she said on government-run dzRB radio. Valte said the delegation started the second leg of its visit in California after midnight Saturday (Manila time). She said Aquino and his delegation were expected to arrive in San Jose in California at 1:30 P.M. (Manila time). Malacanang's Official Gazette website said Aquino and his official delegation were taking a chartered plane from New York. From the airport, it said the delegation will go to the Fairmont Hotel where Aquino will retire for the night. In New York, Aquino met with several world leaders and witnessed the signing of a $434-million Millennium Challenge Corp grant for the Philippines. He also attended the leaders' meeting of the United States and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the Waldorf
