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These fake reports trended on social media this week. Don’t believe them.

Only eight countries expressed qualified support for PH war on drugs.

Santiago repeated the same mistake about government procurement.

Peace “talks” between the government and both the MILF and the MNLF have already been concluded.

President Rodrigo Duterte, in a media interview following his 2017 SONA, said he wants the CHR abolished.

Countries participating in a mammoth Asean-led regional free trade agreement are making a fresh pitch to salvage the deal with new proposals on the level of trade they are willing to liberalize.

Regional trade ministers are finalizing the key elements of a mammoth free trade deal that the Philippines is working to substantially conclude this year.

These fake reports trended on social media this week. Don’t believe them.

The Marcos gold – ill-gotten after all?

A human rights group has called attention to a more sinister outcome of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.

PAO Chief Acosta inaccurately claimed she never said what she had actually said just two days prior.

Candidate Duterte is different from President Duterte.

Dela Rosa’s figures do not match the ostensibly “real numbers” on the war on drugs published by the PNP itself, in its own website.

Philippine Star wrongly reported there's a new law criminalizing fake news.

Former presidents Estrada and Aquino have also attacked both media outfits.

“Ang nakakatakot iyong online, mag-offline na."

You can say no politely, without stating a reason, a lawyer says.

Some of the designs aren’t just fit for everyone--ironically for those who are in danger of being left out during a disaster.

“With my job now, do you think I still have time to spread fake news?” Agriculture Sec. Manny Piñol said.

From being American-owned, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte now falsely accuses social news network Rappler, of being run by the country’s biggest media conglomerate, ABS-CBN, Corp.

The constitution states that in all criminal prosecutions, the person accused is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

What does Vic Sotto have in common with Mr. Bean and The Rock?

Filipinos’ trust in the government dramatically increased in the past two years as church and media, two institutions often lambasted by President Duterte, continued to be regarded highly by the public.

In a press statement, the CHR pointed out that house-to-house drug testing "runs contrary" to the Dangerous Drug Act of 2002.

The president's numbers run counter to "Real Numbers PH," the official figures on the war on drugs released by PDEA.

Supporters and critics of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs have joined the chorus of condemnation over the killing of 17-year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos and called for an investigation of police abuse.

The tape recording starts with the sound of the plane landing and people talking among themselves. “Everybody remains on board,” one of them says. Moments later, a single gunshot rings out and women are wailing.

While the public was engrossed with the scandal of how 605 kilos of shabu from China worth P6.5 billion slipped through the Bureau of Custom and entertained by the Bautista vs Bautista family feud with a cameo role by President Duterte, a chunk of Philippine territory was being taken over by China.

Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella and Sen. Risa Hontiveros both said the CHR is a Constitutional Commission. Were they correct in saying so?

Simbulan, who would have turned 60 on Aug. 19, made it her mission to “help produce good journalists, journalists who can be better than me.”