Former president Rodrigo Duterte has asked the International Criminal Court's Appeals Chamber to excuse him from attending the reading of the judgment on his appeal challenging the tribunal's jurisdiction.

In February 2026, the Sandatahang Dahas monitor of the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center recorded flare ups of an ingrained strain of violence among the country’s arms-bearing state agents that made them turn on each other.

META platforms may have cut funding for fact-checking organizations but Asian fact-checkers are finding ways to continue the fight, even with political pressure.

Communities often step in where the government falls short to push resilience, stop-gap solutions, and address systemic gaps.