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MANILA -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's administration received an impassioned plea from within its ranks on the night of April 11. 

"May I appeal to the government not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, our industries and investors," Charito Plaza, director general of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority, said before a crowd of foreign investors at the World Trade Center in Manila.

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