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Philippines’ Aquino Defends Own Pork Fund

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Nov 01, 2013
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Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III is starting to acquire tarnish from the country’s massive and continuing “pork barrel” scandal, in which scores of lawmakers siphoned off hundreds of millions of pesos from development funds and pocketed them.

The president, his popularity descending in the polls, was forced to go onto national television Wednes…

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