Notwithstanding the kidnapping of Italian priest Fr. Giancarlo Bossi, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo boasted to the diplomatic corps that the country’s security situation has “improved substantially.” Nevertheless, at the traditional vin d’ honneur for the diplomatic corps in Malacañang, Arroyo admitted that 109 years after Philippine independence was declared, the country remains struggling for freedom from want and from fear. Full Story
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