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Reuters: Philippine President Aquino To Fight Graft And Poverty

Benigno Aquino III, the son of two democracy heroes, told hundreds of thousands of people he would deliver on his promise to tackle entrenched corruption when he was sworn in as the Philippines' 15th president on Wednesday.

In his first speech as president, Aquino said he would fight poverty, improve the investment climate, and seek a just resolution to a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency in the south of the poor, mainly Catholic nation.

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