Vice President Jejomar Binay called off a proposed visit to China Sunday to save a Filipina from being executed there for drug trafficking, saying Beijing had declined to receive him.

Binay said he was to have left during on Sunday, carrying a letter from President Benigno Aquino to Chinese President Xi Jinping asking him to spare the woman.

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