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For families of those who were killed when former president Rodrigo Duterte waged a brutal and indiscriminate war on illegal drugs, Undas brings a heavier pain. They are still searching for justice for family members who they believe were falsely tagged and killed.
The transition to the first elected Bangsamoro Parliament on Oct. 30 marks the culmination of the political track's transition phase, but it does not complete the broader peace agreement.
The challenge for lawmakers is to build protections that work in practice, not merely impose restrictions that are difficult to enforce or easy to evade.
There is a festering lethal drug trade in Cebu that the province’s police seem unable to fully deal with and account for, despite its claim of success in its anti-criminality crusade. As long as this is the case, Cebu will remain the center of drug-related killings in the Philippines.
Duterte’s co-perpetrators named in the prosecution’s trial brief are senators Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa and Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, former national police chiefs Oscar Albayalde and Camilo Cascolan, former director of the National Bureau of Investigation Dante Gierran, former head of drug enforcement agency Isidro Lapeña, former justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II and former Manila Police District director Vicente Danao.
Pamilacan Island in Bohol has become a popular ecotourism site but it remains a source of livelihood for fisherfolk.
Delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers in the Philippines struggle with rising expenses, floods, and lost earnings as they find ways to make ends meet.
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Doreen Murata, Digital Advocacy of the Child Rights Network: A blanket social media ban is "not the most appropriate way" to protect children online.
The Oct. 13 withdrawal left the Senate impeachment court to decide only whether Duterte amassed unexplained wealth, inaccurately declared her assets and failed to divest herself of business interests.
