According to Moon, South Korea views as very admirable the President’s concern for the health of tourists. The award, which will be handed to him by the previous winner, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, honors the President for his “rare kind of leadership.”I was a witness to the President’s rare kind of leadership—as AJA puts it—during a visit to Malacañang on Wednesday. “The entertainment manager, Bong Quintana, said the P90,000 was ‘for the boys’ but I didn’t want to steal money from the government,” Nonong told me in tears. The Ayala-owned Boracay Island Water Co. Inc. won the bid to set up the treatment plant in the tourist paradise in 2009. During dinner at Malacañang, the President told me he would compel Pilipinas Shell Petroleum to pay the P113 billion in back taxes and duties it owed the government.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 12, 2018 21:33 UTC