BANGKOK: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will take advantage of a Pacific Rim summit here to satisfy her craving for the stinkiest fruit – the durian.
“She was raised in a place in Mindanao where they grow durian,” presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said referring to the spiky-shelled, pungent fruit that grows not only in Mindanao in the southern Philippines but in much of Southeast Asia.
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