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Defending House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez from possible disbarment due to infidelity, President Rodrigo Duterte said non-Christians such as atheists are exempted from the “rules of the number of women (one) can have.”

Eleven journalists were chosen as fellows under the second Bloomberg Initiative-Global Road Safety Media Fellowship.

Photos of President Rodrigo Duterte showing a blue contraption beside his bed in his residence in Davao City surfaced online on his birthday on May 28.

President Rodrigo Duterte said Davao City is ‘relatively safe’. Is it?

Is the president correct in saying that Davao City's growth is “unprecedented”?

“There is a scarcity of qualified professional drivers in public transportation.”

The government has yet to create an integrated database for drivers and pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles.

The Philippines will soon have its own JARVIS -- and it could save your life.

An exhibit featuring Lenten images by Filipino artists is on display at the Manila Cathedral.

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The president says there are EU countries with death penalty. Is that so?

​President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month said he cannot approve of same-sex marriage because the law allows marriage only between a man and a woman.

Join us at the UP College of Mass Communication Auditorium this Wednesday, March 29, 10 a.m. to noon, as the Department of Journalism and Vera Files hold "Alternative Facts: IS THAT SO?", a forum to mark the First International Fact-Checking Day.

Have these lawmakers stuck to or changed their stand on the death penalty since 2006?

First, it was 7,000. Now, the disputed body count in the war on drugs has been raised further to 8,000 by no less than Vice President Leni Robredo’s legal adviser, former Akbayan Representative Ibarra Gutierrez.

The forlorn look on Haron Arisa’s face, his stooped frame and the bony remnants of his once sturdy legs seem to echo the heavy burden that has been weighing him down for about four years now.

Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio reminded Sunday President Duterte of his “constitutional duty” to the Filipino people to defend the country’s national territory and suggested to him four ways he can do it as regards the reported China’s plans to set up an environmental monitoring station in Scarborough Shoal.

President Rodrigo Duterte invoked presidential immunity when he threatened to kill criminals and drug addicts during his Aug. 5 speech before troops in Capiz.

​President Rodrigo Duterte said he is willing to enter into a compromise deal with cigarette maker Mighty Corp., which is being accused of tax evasion.

Excellence in math has something to do with language, Presidente Duterte says.

There are things that you do knowing that its chance of success is not high but you do it because you know it’s the right thing.

The notes of Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio on Benham Rise is very useful as the 13-million-hectare undersea region east of Luzon is in the news with the disclosure last week by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that Chinese survey ships have been spotted in the area last year.

Benham Rise is an underwater plateau that stretches from the coasts of Cagayan and Bicol up to approximately 300-350 nautical miles (nm) in the Pacific Ocean. A large part of this plateau is within the 200 nm Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf of the Philippines.

When police chief Ronald de la Rosa was once asked to explain before the Senate the deaths in the drug war, he had one reply: “They resisted arrest. Otherwise, they would have been alive.”

The Department of Foreign Affairs has put on hold the application of former Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. for renewal of his Philippine passport pending resolution of questions surrounding his citizenship by “competent authorities.”

Shortly after self-confessed hitman Arturo Lascañas pinned then Davao City mayor now president Rodrigo Duterte as mastermind of the Davao Death Squad (DDS), Communications Secretary Martin Andanar belied this claim.

The newly-crafted social media policy that seeks to grant bloggers access to cover Malacanang events drew mixed reactions from bloggers, lawyers, internet rights advocates and the academe for its implications on Internet freedom.

Last week’s smooth, relatively uneventful retreat by ASEAN’s foreign ministers appears to have put the grouping’s agenda on track for its 50th year, choosing to focus beyond the South China Sea disputes and set the stage for an April leaders’ summit that will put the spotlight purposefully on ASEAN’s golden anniversary.

Chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo said last week President Rodrigo Duterte's popularity has been rising despite criticisms and exposés.