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Nakatakdang umupo sa ika-16 ng Hunyo 2021 bilang bagong chief prosecutor ng International Criminal Court (ICC) ang British lawyer na si Karim Khan, ang kapalit ng magre-retirong si Fatou Bensouda. Bago bumaba sa puwesto, tinitiyak ni Bensouda na kanyang ilalabas ang desisyon kung dapat imbestigahan ang “crimes against humanity” na naganap umano sa kampanya laban sa droga ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte.

Lawyers and petitioners questioning the constitutionality of the anti-terrorism law urged the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday, March 9, to help stop the continuing attacks on their colleagues and activists by, among others, issuing a temporary restraining order on the enforcement of the anti-terrorism law.

As the country launched on March 1 its long-awaited vaccination program against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), conflicting pronouncements from the Palace persist on when President Rodrigo Duterte, at 75, will be inoculated, and whether it would be in public.

Teen pregnancies and child marriages have been pressing concerns in the Philippines but the pandemic and the lockdown intended to curb it aggravated the problems, officials and rights advocates say.

For the first time since 1996, neither the Philippines nor its alliance with the United States was mentioned in the U.S. president’s national security strategy as he warned against the “global march” of authoritarianism that threatens democracy.

Frustration, anger and desperation have been running high among Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters who want Singapore to cut business ties with the military regime, but the country’s events remain distant news headlines for the average Singaporean.

Last month, Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy denied the existence of a group of indigenous peoples in the country referred to as “Lumad,” wrongly claiming that it is a “made up word” of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its allied organizations to forward their agenda.

After a five-day delay, the much-awaited first shipment of 600,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine from China arrived in the country on Sunday, Feb. 28. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque Jr. earlier said the Feb. 23 delivery was already cast in stone, but it wound up being delayed because manufacturers wanted an indemnity agreement.

In a video statement on Feb. 21, SAGIP Party-list Representative Rodante Marcoleta mistakenly claimed that teachers sit last in the government’s vaccination program against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

When Karim Khan assumes the position of chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in June, he faces the possibility of investigating alleged crimes against humanity committed in the Philippines’ campaign against illegal drugs.

“Our decision to get Sinovac was based on science,” said Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Director Gerardo Legaspi.

Southeast Asian nations ranked the pandemic as its topmost concern in 2020 and see China as number one among its dialogue partners to have given the most assistance to the region. This is according to the 2021 State of Southeast Asia survey report of the ASEAN Studies Centre at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.

The 1988 pro-democracy protests in Myanmar were heady days, a time when danger and excitement mixed freely among university students like me in the streets of Magway, my hometown in the country’s central region. Soon after, the terror of the military regime of the 1990s era kicked in, until the country’s supposed transition to democracy started around 2010.

It has been 23 years since the Department of Health conducted its largest inoculation drive involving 22.9 million Filipinos aged 9 to 14 for the measles-rubella supplemental immunization activity, according to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire.

A look into the company’s history shows it has taken on printing jobs for local and national government agencies, including the Philippine National Police.

Coconut oil, a major Philippine export, is gaining renewed attention for its potential antiviral properties against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has already claimed more than 2.4 million lives globally.

Responding to critics who said the Philippines is falling behind the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination drive in Asia, Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque mistakenly claimed that only three countries in the region have started their vaccination rollouts as of Feb. 2.

The foremost prisoner of conscience in the country has just been acquitted of one of three drug charges against her and moves ever closer to freedom after nearly four years of unjust detention at Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Voting unanimously, the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), dismissed “the entire electoral protest” that former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed against Vice President Leni Robredo to wrestle the country’s second highest post.

“Fake news are created by humans. Thus, only humans can recognize and solve this issue.” This motto appears on the website of Southeast Asia’s newest fact checker – the government-run Vietnam Anti-Fake News Center.

Four and a half years after its filing, the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), unanimously voted on Tuesday, Feb. 16, to dismiss “for lack of merit” the entire election protest of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. that challenged the victory of Vice President Leni Robredo in the 2016 national elections.

Enforcement of the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act has been deferred to give car owners with children 12 years and younger time to install appropriate car seats specified in the new law.

“We don’t know why this has happened,” Yuyun Wahyuningrum, Indonesia’s representative to the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) says, with a tinge of frustration .

Biking enthusiasts continue to advocate for the conversion of a car lane into a bicycle lane.