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Rappler
April 12, 2018
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed two more men to the Consultative Committe (Con-Com) to study revisions to the 1987 Constitution. The two new members are retired Navy commodore Rex Robles and lawyer Jose Martin Loon. Duterte signed their appointment papers onÃâà...
MFA China
April 12, 2018
On April 10, 2018, President Xi Jinping met with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines at Boao State Guesthouse in Hainan Province. Xi Jinping pointed out that the China-Philippines relations have opened a new chapter since President Rodrigo Duterte has assumed office. China stands ready toÃâà...
Firstpost
April 10, 2018
Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday lawmakers must "fast-track" the impeachment of the nations top judge, further stacking the odds against her staying in office. Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is one of several high-profile critics who has found themselves inÃâà...
CNN
April 10, 2018
(CNN) Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has effusively praised China and its strongman President Xi Jinping on the eve of attending Beijing's signature Boao Forum. Speaking in Manila on Monday prior to his trip to China, Duterte said the Philippines needed to deepen ties with Beijing because ChinaÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 10, 2018
Hong Kong Police Force is taking no chances with this week's visit of Rodrigo Duterte, the controversial Philippine president. Heavily armed counterterrorism units will patrol the streets, a rarely used anti-explosives vehicle capable of jamming radio signals will be deployed, as will members of the elite VIPÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 4, 2018
The parent company of Cambridge Analytica helped put Philippines' leader Rodrigo Duterte into office after already influencing voters in dozens of campaigns across the globe, according to media reports and information pulled from the firm's website. Strategic Communications Laboratories, or SCL Group,Ãâà...
Philippine Star
March 31, 2018
MANILA, Philippines — As he leads a bloody war on drugs that has left scores dead, President Rodrigo Duterte has started a new battle, with “new targets,” a Filipina United Nations expert whom the government accused of terrorism said. In a petition filed in a Manila court last month, the Department ofÃâà...
Philippine Star
March 30, 2018
MANILA, Philippines — A group of concerned Maranaos appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the planned establishment of an economic zone and a military camp in the war-ravaged city of Marawi. In a statement Friday, Ranaw Multi-Sectoral Movement lamented that the residents of Marawi haveÃâà...
ABS-CBN News
March 24, 2018
MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte urged the Filipino faithful to renew their relationship with God and fellow countrymen this Holy Week. "As we put our hands together in prayer, may we use this as an opportune time to rekindle our religious fervor and cherish our time-honored traditions as a pious peopleÃâà...
Philippine Star
March 24, 2018
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he will fire more officials upon his arrival in Manila, following up on his campaign promise to weed out corruption in the government. Duterte made the remarks in his native Cebuano during the 16th founding anniversary of the Supreme Tribal Council for Peace andÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 24, 2018
President Rodrigo Duterte has extended financial aid to the families of the victims of a bus crash in Sablayan town in Occidental Mindoro that left 19 people dead and 21 others injured. Duterte was in Sablayan town, Occidental Mindoro to visit not only the crash site but also the victims of the road mishap,Ãâà...
The Week UK
March 22, 2018
The killings are the latest in a long and bloody war on drugs waged by President Rodrigo Duterte since he came to power in 2016. Duterte has authorised police to crack down on illegal drug use, urging them to kill suspects and promising to protect them from prosecution. He has also endorsed murderousÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 18, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday urged other nations to follow his move to quit the International Criminal Court, which is examining his deadly drug war. Duterte lashed out at the war crimes tribunal days after his government notified the United Nations of his decision to withdraw theÃâà...
New York Times
March 14, 2018
MANILA — Denouncing what he called efforts to paint him as a “heartless violator of human rights,” President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday that the Philippines was withdrawing from the treaty that established the International Criminal Court. The Hague-based court said last month that it wasÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 12, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte fuelled an extraordinary war of words with the United Nations by saying that their human rights team should be fed to crocodiles if they came to investigate his controversial war on drugs. It followed a week in which he had called Agnes Callamard, UN Rapporteur onÃâà...
The Guardian
March 11, 2018
The warning signs were all there. But Maria Ressa says “I never saw it coming.” The founder and driving force behind the Philippines news organisation Rappler admits to surprise when President Rodrigo Duterte effectively declared war on her journalists and heralded with it the biggest threat to freedom ofÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 11, 2018
DAVAO CITY — President Rodrigo Duterte made a surprise visit to Barangay Bucana here early Sunday and chatted with the village's residents, Special Assistant to the President Christopher Go. In a Facebook post, Go said the President also provided financial help to unspecified number of residents inÃâà...
CBS News
March 9, 2018
GENEVA -- The United Nations' human rights chief suggested Friday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte "needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation" over his "unacceptable" remarks about some top human rights defenders. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein demanded that the Human RightsÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 5, 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is skipping a regional summit in Australia this month, his spokesman said Monday, as he faces international censure for Manila's deadly drug war. Duterte's decision to snub the meeting comes after he said he would not cooperate with United Nations investigatorsÃâà...
The Guardian
March 1, 2018
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Philippines' police and soldiers not to cooperate in any investigation into his bloody war on drugs, amid international calls for an external probe. Western countries and rights groups have expressed alarm over the killing by police of more than 4,000 Filipinos sinceÃâà...
Inquirer.net
March 1, 2018
DAVAO CITY—President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday urged the police and the military to revisit the way they handle security on the country's roads, particularly in areas where the peace and order situations appear to be shaky. Duterte suggested that instead of a permanent checkpoint, the military and theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 27, 2018
More than 30 mostly Western countries have called on the Philippines to allow the UN expert, Agnes Callamard, to look into the thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal 19 month-old crackdown. Callamard's specialist areas under the United Nations are extrajudicial, summary or arbitraryÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 21, 2018
An opposition senator in the Philippines said the death toll in the government's war on drugs has now surpassed 20,000 since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office in 2016. In a speech before the Philippine Senate on Wednesday, Antonio Trillanes said the Duterte administration's own report showsÃâà...
NPR
February 20, 2018
Or he could do what Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte did last week — and urge his citizens to forgo condoms during intercourse because "they don't feel good." The subject arose during a characteristically bizarre digression in a speech to Filipino workers back just from Kuwait. Hundreds of FilipinoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 16, 2018
Human rights groups, rebels and indigenous activists have accused Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of inciting the military to commit war crimes after he offered a $384 bounty for each communist rebel killed. Duterte's "incendiary rhetoric" encourages violations of conventions on armed conflicts,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 12, 2018
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine strongman who has earned a reputation for dirty tactics and language, was criticized on Monday for having boasted that he had ordered soldiers to shoot female communist guerrillas in the genitals. “Tell the soldiers, 'There's a new order coming from theÃâà...
The Independent
February 8, 2018
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary investigation into Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's “war on drugs.” The campaign has led to nearly 4,000 deaths since its beginning in July 2016. The ICC will look into whether crimes against humanity have been committed andÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
Last month, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, opened a preliminary examination into a complaint by a Filipino lawyer of suspected extrajudicial killings during President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug campaign, which could amount to crimes against humanity. In response, Duterte announced last week he wasÃâà...
Sun.Star
December 31, 1999
MANILA. President Rodrigo Duterte addresses the troops during the 121st anniversary celebration of the Philippine Army on March 20, 2018 in Taguig City. ... PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will spend his 73rd birthday on Wednesday, March 28, in his home province in Davao City without a "lavish" party,Ãâà...
South China Morning Post
December 31, 1999
The Philippine Supreme Court chief justice vowed to fight “bullying” and save judicial independence as President Rodrigo Duterte's congressional allies launched an impeachment process Thursday to remove her from office. Voting 38-2, the House of Representatives justice committee said there wasÃâà...
South China Morning Post
December 31, 1999
Al Pacino's ferocious anti-hero Tony Montana, who stops at nothing to rise from Cuban immigrant to powerful drug lord, is now foul-mouthed Rodrigo Duterte, a president seemingly stopping at nothing – mowing down human-rights charters and racking up a body count in the thousands – to free his countryÃâà...
South China Morning Post
December 31, 1999
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday “genocide” was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too. The United Nations and rights groups say some 700,000 people, most of them Rohingya, have fled fromÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Manila, Philippines - Thirty-two years since it ousted its last dictator, the Philippines faces the possibility of having another one. As the country commemorated the "People Power" revolution of 1986, more than 1,000 people gathered on Sunday at the event's memorial to condemn President Rodrigo DuterteÃâà...
