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Konrad Adenauer center for Journalism inaugurat
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June 8' 2000 at the Ateneo de Manila University, Rockwell Center.
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Former President Corazon C. Aquino delivered a speechrstressing.gdtne
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aims to reach not only Filipino but southeast Asian jJurnists who arilaced with
differencesin cultural boundaries and beliefs and plagued with the worsening
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lives and becamehostagesthemselvesto get to the story.
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