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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is helped to attach an earphone at a luncheon meeting with Japanese business leaders in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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@toneThe speakers usually obey engineers' instructions.: thank you: Philippine people speaks English so I assume she explained in English.

But when technical words are involved, tehnollgistsvspeaks in their English, the translator speak with their perfect accented English.

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Goodluck to our country and for all those people who comments that our President is a "bad guy" , you are all definitely wrong! would you rather want innocent people to die in the Philippines because they are victims of drug addicts, and other wrongdoings of bad and crazy people???

@Rica88 while I do understand that Dutuerte is not corrupted as your previous officials whom people who throw money at them for favors, he still needs to respect law and order. Saying, "only bad guys are being killed" without going through a legitimate judicial process to determine whether or not a person is actually guilty of doing what someone says they're doing is very stupid. Without this process someone who may not be a drug dealer/distributer can be killed and labelled as "a bad guy" even though they'd be sentenced to death for being labelled with a criminal charge they didn't even commit.

Why not deal with the corrupt politicians first? The pattern is always easy to follow. Starts with greed, then corruption, and ultimately... destruction.

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toshiko, the woman in the middle is a famous interpreter.

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The people who are installing earphone must be audio equipment experts.wireless and mike is connected. He is now experience superiority ooh Japanese advanced tech. Hope he likes Japan just like other southern Asian countries.

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That's a pretty hip shirt, or jacket thing he's wearing. (Mel Brooks - "When you're the king") As far as that comment above that the pres "is not a bad guy" the commentor doesn't seem to get the fact that the police over there, ( and I assume the military) have no problems killing people. But as it is in Indonesia, there's a huge amount of corruption in those forces. Drug addicts or recreational users? Extortion or torture? Sweeping a neighborhood of assumed dealers also means eliminating competition. Too much centralized power will lead to fascism. Fish heads, fascism, what's for dinner?

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Not just earphone but tiny speaker will be attached in front of his face. I don't know Japan use or not but there is another equipment Japanese company created and media use. Opposite of frontline of the speakers, large video screen that displays contents of speech. American people are familiar because They watch presidential election debates.

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Many hands make light work?

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A: How many business leaders does it take to put on an earpiece?

B: Business leaders don't put on an earpiece, they hold a meeting and just talk about putting on an earpiece

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"The earpiece doesn't stick"

"Quick! Grab a hammer!!"

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Goodluck to our country and for all those people who comments that our President is a "bad guy" , you are all definitely wrong! would you rather want innocent people to die in the Philippines because they are victims of drug addicts, and other wrongdoings of bad and crazy people??? There is no extra judicial killings in our land!!! only bad guys are being killed!!!! FYI!!!!!!Our country has been under CORRUPTION by a lot of GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS for the longest time, and now we are so blessed to have PRESIDENT DUTERTE because he is not a corrupt man!!! so for all of you who doesn't watch full interviews given by our president and just believes on edited ,twisted news being FED TO YOU by the oligarchs, puppets etc or ANTI DUTERTE people, oh well I PITY YOU!!! We love our President and we are so proud of him!!!!!

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...too bad. A first glance led me to the hope that he was being arrested.

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They might want to consider putting a speaker in his mouth to control what comes out, too.

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And probably trying to remove the chewing gum and button up his shirt too.

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