Benigno Aquino III has been sworn in as the new president of the Philippines, reiterating his campaign pledges to root out widespread corruption and "lift our country from poverty".
The inauguration on Wednesday took place in front of hundreds of thousands of supporters and followed his landslide win in last month's election.
"If there is no corruption, there is no poor. This is not just a slogan for a poster, this is the principle behind my administration," he said in a speech before a cheering crowd in the capital, Manila.
Aquino, known popularly as "Noynoy", is the son of Philippine democracy icons Benigno and Corazon Aquino, who challenged the rule of the country's late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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