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Even as the country grappled with new strains of Covid-19 last year, the Duterte government’s drug war continued to claim more lives at the average rate of three deaths every two days.

Duterte, who expressed his anti-vaping stance strongly in 2019, has the option to sign it into law, allow it to lapse into law after 30 days, or veto the entire or parts of the proposed law.

The COVID-19 health crisis has spurred an increased overall trust in news among Filipinos but has led to waning interest in news products.

Interest in news and belief in the importance of independent journalism run high in the Philippines but are accompanied by a low trust in news and high levels of concern over misinformation.

PRESIDENTIAL brother-in-law Rep. Jose Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo indicated yesterday that the sugar plantation the Arroyo family owns in Negros Occidental would still be covered by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program or CARP. “There is no truth to the allegation that the Biofuels Act will protect sugar land from CARP. Land conversion has no connection to

SEN. Antonio Trillanes IV has warned the government of the likelihood of more skirmishes between the Philippine Navy and the naval forces of other countries claiming the Spratlys in view of the increasing global demand for oil and the growing need to explore oil reserves in the area.

REP. Antonio Cuenco has said that sending the proposed baseline law back to the House committee on foreign affairs after it has passed second reading would violate the rules of the chamber.

NEGLECT by President Gloria Arroyo and squabbles over turf and money have derailed government efforts to establish the country's new archipelagic baseline, and may jeopardize the Philippines' claim over resource-rich Spratlys that fall within its extended continental shelf.

SIX islands occupied by the Philippines in the disputed Spratly Islands Groups are covered by two controversial joint seismic monitoring agreements among the Philippines, China and Vietnam that have come under fire for purportedly “sacrificing” Philippine interests in exchange for huge loans from Beijing.