カテゴリー: Philippines
Move likely to deepen political rift between Duterte and President Ferdinand Marcos JrPhilippine vice-president Sara Duterte has been impeached on a range of accusations that include plotting to assassinate the president, large-scale corruption and fai…
Vice-president Sara Duterte is facing an investigation over her alleged threat to kill Ferdinand Marcos Jr The Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, has removed his vice-president, Sara Duterte, from the national security council (NSC) a month aft…
Leila de Lima enraged Rodrigo Duterte when she began investigating killings carried out during his ‘war on drugs’Leila de Lima, one of fiercest critics of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs” who was jailed for more t…
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Supporters say her drug smuggling conviction embodies the deepest fears of families in a country that sends millions of workers abroad each yearAfter 14 years on death row in Indonesia, Mary Jane Veloso arrived in Manila on Wednesday to the tight embra…
Mother of Mary Jane Veloso urges Philippine president to act so family can be reunited for Christmas, as daughter lands in ManilaThe mother of Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipino domestic helper who spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia, has urged…
Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death after she was found guilty of drug trafficking in 2010A Filipino migrant worker who has spent almost 15 years on death row in Indonesia is expected to arrive home on Wednesday after a deal was struck between Mani…
Vice-president Sara Duterte tells press conference she has given an assassin the instructions, prompting referral from Marcos’s office over ‘active threat’The Philippines’ vice-president, Sara Duterte, said on Saturday she would have someone assassinat…
A powerful typhoon wrecked houses and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it scythed across the northern Philippines on Sunday. It was the sixth major storm to pound the country in less than a month, and the national…
Tropical Storm Usagi is days away from making landfall, after Typhoon Toraji, Severe Tropical Storm Trami, Typhoon Yinxing and Super Typhoon Kong-reyThe Philippines issued new weather warnings on Tuesday as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore dow…
The former president faces an investigation by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity over the alleged extrajudicial killing of thousands of drug suspectsSoon after his election in 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte launch…
Ex-president says he kept criminals to kill other criminals while mayor and offers no apologies at hearing investigating crackdownsThe former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has told a senate inquiry into drug killings under his leadership that he…
Rescue workers continue to search for missing after storm brings two months’ rainfall to some areas in 24 hoursThe number of dead and missing after tropical storm Trami caused extensive flooding and landslides in the Philippines has exceeded 100, as th…
Tropical storm Trami has killed at least 26 people and forced more than 150,000 to flee their homes in the Philippines as it made landfall on the northeastern coast. Trami brought torrential rain on the main island of Luzon, triggering widespread flood…
Sara Duterte makes threat against remains of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictator father in searing verbal attackThe Philippine vice-president, Sara Duterte, has threatened to dig up the remains of President Ferdinand Marcos’s dictator father and throw them int…