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Duterte Addresses an Ailing Nation

President’s address amid coronavirus crisis

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Jul 27, 2020
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With his economy slipping into negative territory and with 86 percent of the nation’s 109 million citizens reporting they were stressed by the Covid-19 crisis, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in his fifth State of the Nation address, in a combative speech laid out an infrastructure-heavy program aimed at getting his country back on track, bragged …

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