"We explain to them they shouldn't smuggle if possible..."
Alan Whicker is surprised by The Philippines

One of the largest English-speaking nations in the world is a distant, little-known Republic which, after forty-eight years of American occupation and two decades of independence, seems a bridge between East and West.
It is both a familiar and a very strange land indeed. Each year in the Philippines there are 16,000 murders, and smugglers rob the Treasury of almost half its National Budget - some £80 million.
(First shown on BBC-2)