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Foreigners in the country, mostly Chinese, are also getting killed in the bloody war against illegal drugs by the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.

In the past five years of his presidency, President Rodrigo Duterte went from trying to talk peace with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), to declaring an all-out war with the movement to end the 52-year armed struggle within his term.

Public dismay over the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has lowered the approval rating of the administration but not so much of President Rodrigo Duterte himself, the head of a public opinion polling body said Friday.

President Rodrigo Duterte and his chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo made three inaccurate claims about the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a recorded public address on July 28.

After declaring last year that he would “not renege” on his decision to terminate the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States (U.S.), President Rodrigo Duterte backtracked and reinstated the controversial military deal as a “concession” following the donation of COVID-19 vaccines by Washington.

Experts say: Don’t simply rely on social media for health information.

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that media giant ABS-CBN has not been paying its taxes properly, adding that the network pays only a small percentage of its supposed property tax. This is false.

President Rodrigo Duterte claimed in his final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26 that his 2016 order on freedom of information opened up to the public various types of government records and issuances. This needs context.

Five years after the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award, there is renewed debate about how best to understand its impact on the Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands chain. A contentious point is the Arbitral Award’s effect on Presidential Decree 1596, issued by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1978.Recent government pronouncements on the Julian Felipe Reef question have staked continuing Philippine claim over the feature based on the Marcos decree.

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed the 2016 arbitral award, which nullified China’s expansive nine-dash line claim over the South China Sea, does not bind Beijing.

Locally, vaccine wastage often happens due to “oversight in the monitoring of vaccine storage temperatures."

These are among the survival skills that many people in Myanmar are using these days, six months after the February military coup. Hypervigilance has become routine.