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China should recognise that the Philippines is an independent and sovereign state whose actions and decisions are driven ...

Its characteristic feature was its bell tower — the first ever bell tower in the country. It was a gift from Napoleon III's wife, Empress Eugénie de Montijo, to the Dominicans who ran the ...