Career
Aglay joined Reuters as a business reporter in 1995. She had previously also worked as a business reporter for the Philippine Star. Aglay specialized in reporting on commodity stories, such as food pricing, while reporting for Reuters.
Dolly Aglay died of cancer, which she had been battling for almost 3 years, in Manila on May 26, 2008, at the age of 41.
She "kept talking about missing out on one of the biggest commodities stories of recent years in the Philippines, the rise in rice prices over the past few months."
Aglay was buried at Heritage Memorial Park in Manila on Sunday, June 1, 2008.