This was actually part of a front page I once saw on a local broadsheet. Things like these sometimes go unnoticed even in newspapers. The grammatical error in this example is very commmon in cultures whose native tongue's pronouns are neutral in gender.
Mike and her wife...
Mr. Cruz and her daughter...
Bernadette and his dad...
English possessive pronouns have feminine (her) or masculine (his) forms which directly agree with the subject (President GMA) it refers to.
Therefore:
President Gloria Arroyo and her husband recently attended a conference.
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