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President Rodrigo Duterte’s conciliatory approach toward China has reduced tensions in the South China Sea and is a positive development for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), two foreign policy experts said.

He played dead to save his life. Having been shot in the chest, Efren Morillo had to cover his wound, slide down a ravine, cross a stream, climb a hill and crawl to the nearest highway to get help.

​It could have been a slip, except the president says it is the “truth.” President Rodrigo Duterte, recalling his meeting two years ago with former president Benigno Aquino III on the day of the Mamasapano encounter, said he was in Zamboanga City to “campaign.”

Comedian-turned-senator Vicente Sotto III thinks condoms are solely for contraception. Invoking science, he said a condom does not block the entry of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into one’s system.

President Rodrigo Duterte is now likening addicts to slaves, describing them as eternally dependent on drugs.

President Rodrigo Duterte credited the arrest of an MNLF leader's son, and the ability to secure regional waters, to his good working relations with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, and "Mahathir."

In giving a rundown of the Office of the Solicitor General’s accomplishments since he went on board on June 30, 2016, Solicitor General Jose Calida appeared to have grabbed credit from his predecessors.

​For President Rodrigo Duterte, the law is to be blamed for the number of children out on the streets committing crime.

The Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) want Malaysia to nominate another facilitator in the peace process, government peace panel chair Irene Santiago said.

What do martial law and the Abu Sayyaf have in common? On both issues, President Rodrigo Duterte had flip-flopped, and then, flipped, or flopped, again.

President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed the arrest in Malaysia of the son of two Mindanao political leaders in connection with September’s blast that killed 15 people here. Duterte was referring to a son of former Cotabato City mayor Muslimin Sema and Maguindanao lawmaker Rep. Bai Sandra Sema.

The son of a leader of the Moro National Liberation Front and a Mindanao lawmaker has been in Malaysian custody for almost two months now in connection with the Sept. 2 Davao City bombing, multiple police, military and diplomatic sources said.