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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.

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

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.

After numerous flip-flops on how he would handle the Abu Sayyaf Group, President Rodrigo Duterte has backpedaled once again, this time announcing it through his spokesperson, Undersecretary Ernesto Abella.

AFTER numerous flip-flops on how he would handle the Abu Sayyaf Group, President Rodrigo Duterte has backpedaled once again, this time announcing it through his spokesperson, Undersecretary Ernesto Abella. STATEMENT: In a Radyo ng Bayan interview, Abella said the president reiterated his vow to end the terrorist group during the annual joint command conference with

THE year 2016 gave the Philippines a new president, who brought with him to office his very own lexicon, one which we must use our “creative imagination” to fathom.

It's no longer shocking as it was months before when news of President Rodrigo Duterte taking a swipe at yet another world leader breaks out.

For the Philippines, the second half of 2016 meant listening to President Rodrigo Duterte’s press conferences, often at midnight, and his curses and threats against world leaders, corrupt politicians, and drug lords.