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MANILA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) vowed on Thursday to back the ongoing war on drugs waged by President Rodrigo Duterte. PDEA, the leading agency of the government's war on illegal drugs, stressed the need to...
MANILA, July 10 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has acquired 100 canine handlers and their partner drug-sniffing dogs to its force as the anti-narcotics forces intensify anti-drug crackdown to stem the flow of illegal drugs that continue to flood the country. PDEA D...
Watch the newCBSN Originalsdocumentary, "Fake News, Real Consequences: The Woman Fighting Disinformation," in the video player above. Rodrigo Duterte, the outspoken and polarizing populist president of the Philippines, is best known for his aggressivewar on drugs, which, according to human rights ...
Linguistic representation of the Philippine war-on-drugs victims in online news reportsdoi:10.59960/11.a1Alarcon, Josephine B.Lintao, Rachelle B.Asian Journal of English Language Studies
But while Duterte has been the inspiration for protest marches against the death penalty and his war on drugs, the leader has also won favor with some Filipinos, who support his anti-drug crackdown. A recent phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump catapulted Duter...
Aside from Bantag, Lapid had also strongly criticized former President Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw a deadly crackdown on illegal drugs. Duterte ended his turbulent six-year term in June. Media watchdogs have condemned Mabasa’s killing, saying the attack underscores how deadly the Philippines rema...
to criticize the government," James Gomez, the group's director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement. "The Philippines government should focus on ending and investigating violations, mostly against poor communities, in the 'war on drugs,' not trying to silence the messenger....
Hammond says the conversation then "naturally" turned to drugs and thedrug war-- although Duterte has blamed drugs for the presence of ISIS in his country, without any evidence. The Secretary spoke about the U.S.-Mexican partnership on transnationalcrime, pointing ...