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US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the Philippines for the strides it had achieved in gender equality and heaped paeans on a host of Indo-Pacific nations for their economic and social transformations in the past decades.



Speaking at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Vietnam, Trump praised the host nation, the Philippines as well as Indonesia, Thailand, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and India for their economic transformations, saying that the US has been an active partner in the region since it gained independence.



Trump applauded Manila particularly for its achievements in closing the gender gap and for embracing women leaders in both business and politics.

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"The Philippines has emerged as a nation of strong and devout families. For 11 consecutive years, the World Economic Forum has ranked the Philippines first among Asian countries in closing the gender gap and embracing women leaders in business and politics," Trump said during his remarks before leaders and businessmen of the region.