カテゴリー: Rodrigo Duterte
Former president to run in his home city of Davao despite ICC’s investigation into possible crime against humanityThe former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, whose anti-drugs crackdown is being investigated by the international criminal court as a…
Outlet, which was hit with order during Rodrigo Duterte administration, hails ruling after ‘eight years of harassment’A court in the Philippines has voided a shutdown order that was issued against Rappler, an independent news outlet known for its scrut…
Former president has called for his home region, Mindanao, to split from the Philippines as his alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr crumblesThe Philippine government is ready to use “authority and forces” against attempts to divide the nation, …
Ferdinand Marcos Jr hits back with fentanyl insult amid breakdown in relations between political familiesThe former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte accused his successor, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, of being a drug addict who risked being ousted from off…
Former senator was arrested after launching inquiry into ex-president’s brutal war on drugs, now an ICC investigationThe most prominent critic of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs” has been granted bail, after mo…
The dropping of charges against Ressa and Rappler, the news website she founded, is the latest legal victory for the Nobel laureate Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has been acquitted of her final tax evasion charge in the latest legal victory for…
Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young FilipinosIt was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began t…
Marcos Jr, who began his term as president of the Philippines on Thursday, invoked his father’s legacy as he promised he would deliver for the country.Crucial to Marcos Jr’s success was an alliance with outgoing president Rodrigo Duterte’s da…
Son says family has legacy of achievement as he completes clan’s return to power 36 years after father’s oustingFerdinand Marcos Jr has promised a government that will deliver for all Filipinos during his inauguration speech, even as he paid tribute to…
The ‘kill’ order, which seeks to revoke the company’s certificates of incorporation, was made in the final days of Rodrigo Duterte’s ruleThe Philippine government is affirming a previous order to shut down the news website Rappler, according to its co-…
Analysis: Duterte’s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and mediaSix years ago, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City, known as “the Punisher” because of his merciless approach to crime,…
Alliance between Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Sara Duterte reinforces power of influential familiesNew era for Philippines as Marcos Jr electedIt was a deal – rumoured to have been brokered at the exclusive island resort of Balesin – that set the course of …
Factcheckers say Ferdinand Marcos Jr was overwhelming beneficiary of a flood of online disinformation before pollSurvivors of the brutal regime of the late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos have described his son’s apparent landslide presidential e…
Ferdinand Marcos Jr leads polls but analysts point to huge rallies of his opponent and the vice-president, Leni RobredoVoters in the Philippines will go to the polls for a presidential election that pits frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and nam…
Ferdinand Marcos Jr, known as Bongbong Marcos, frontrunner in race to replace populist president Rodrigo DuterteOn 9 May about 67.5 million Filipinos will go to the polls to decide who should replace the populist president Rodrigo Duterte. He has reach…