Tag: President Rodrigo Duterte

THE Philippines has been seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases, with close to 10,000 fresh infections added to the total tally over the weekend

Church groups expressed alarm at the killings and concern about "red-tagging” of opponents as communists or terrorists

Duterte's spokesman, Harry Roque said De Lima had no reason to celebrate because she remains in jail

The Philippines has locked in 25 million doses of China's Sinovac vaccine, with the first 50,000 expected to arrive in February

The president has also ordered to step up the rehabilitation of the area “by planting more trees and other efforts of rehabilitation”

To remain gullible, to forget and reject the things of the mind, to stay uncritical, may prove to be our biggest hurdle yet

The president’s generals are all extremely well-educated and there is little doubt of their intelligence, but they share a fatal flaw

The biggest minefield is the worldview that a cabal of abusive men can run roughshod over laws and shove aside rightful authorities

Critics said the “illegal” and “selective vaccination” shows “an exclusivist attitude by the Duterte administration”

The ICC Office of the Prosecutor noted that there is “a reasonable basis to believe" that "crimes against humanity" were committed