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President Rodrigo Duterte made a fuss about the relatively low pay he has been receiving as president of the country.

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.”

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”?

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

VERA Files Fact Check tracks false claims and misleading statements of public officials and figures and debunks them with factual evidence. It also monitors their flip-flops.

Can the president “order” the AMLC to release information about his net worth.

President Rodrigo Duterte said “Ako hindi ako milyonaryo (I am not a millionaire).” Is it the truth?

What are the powers and functions of the Office of the Solicitor General?

President Rodrigo Duterte is now tweaking his narrative from being born to a poor family and growing up “in the slums” and is now saying his family was and is not poor.

​Environment Secretary Gina Lopez says open-pit mining can cause earthquakes.

The Press Secretary is the liaison between the government, the public and the media. One of his functions is to clarify, confirm or deny information that the media ask him for confirmation.

Senators Juan Miguel Zubiri and Antonio Trillanes IV almost came to blows after a heated debate on the Senate floor on Jan. 17.

​In a recent briefing with his defense team, President Rodrigo Duterte denounced the reported move of the U.S. to build depots and unload arms in the Philippines. He said "the missiles of China are pointed at American expeditions" here, and it is the kind of war the country cannot participate in.

​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.