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President Duterte is simplifying the root cause of five-month war in Marawi by attributing it to drugs.

President Duterte last Sunday at the Masskara Festival in Bacolod City endorsed Kabayan Partylist Representative Harry Roque for senator in the 2019 senatorial elections.

President Duterte’s paranoia about the CIA wanting him out is on overdrive again fueled by reports that Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV was in the United States where he met with an U.S. Republican senator that his foreign secretary, Alan Peter Cayetano had tried to meet but was not able to.

Fake news. We have that in abundance direct from the President himself. Now we have Fake Charge

The poor are most exasperated. The poorest class, Class E, is least satisfied with Duterte’s performance.

In the long stretch of the history of a persistent catastrophe befalling nations, often overlooked are seemingly innocuous events that actually constitute the pathways to disaster.

Let me first emphasize an important constitutional point: there is a difference between false information provided by ordinary citizens and false information peddled by public officials.

The Philippines’ chairing of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the regional organization’s 50th anniversary received a rude shock when Malaysia dissociated itself from a statement on the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, issued by Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano.

Cielito "Honeylet" Salvador Avanceña has weighed in on the more serious issues of her partner’s presidency. And we are stunned by her logic.

The one subject that drives Duterte up the wall is his alleged huge bank deposits first exposed by Sen. Trillanes in April 2016.

The Philippines has the sole, exclusive jurisdiction over the Philippine Navy vessel and personnel allegedly involved in the Bolinao shooting incident last Sept. 22.

BANGKOK – Laos and Cambodia are often seen as little more than political twins who have chosen to reap economic benefits from China in exchange for their loyalty to the Middle Kingdom – and choosing this alliance over keeping consensus with their ASEAN family.