Philippine's 16th presidentas a man of contentious quips and often offensive quotes. But while Duterte has been the inspiration forprotest marchesagainst the death penalty and his war on drugs, the leader haswith some Filipinos, who support his anti-drug crackdown. Duterte made ...
MANILA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has refused the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden to attend the summit between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next month. In a taped meeting with some members of the Cabinet aired...
On Friday, Duterte raised the rhetoric over his anti-drug campaign to a new level by comparing it to Hitler and the Holocaust and saying he would be “happy to slaughter” an estimated 3 million addicts in the Philippines. In that speech, the brash president said without elaborating that he...
The outgoing president Aquino has warned repeatedly the risk for the country to fall under a dictatorship if citizens voted Duterte. Duterte is the first president to be nationally elected without a previous national position. After Emilio Aguinaldo, Duterte is the second non-resident of Metro Manil...
Philippine president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, who embarked on an ice-breaking trip to China yesterday, said he agrees with Beijing’s call for peaceful settlement of the South China Sea issue. Duterte, who took office in Jul...
MANILA, Philippines-- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s popularity has soared during his first three months in office, an independent survey showed Thursday, in an apparent endorsement by Filipinos of his brutal crime crackdown. The unprecedented purge has left more than 3,000 people dead and...
MANILA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday thanked and heaped praises on a Chinese philanthropist who helped build a 10,000-bed drug rehabilitation center inside a military camp in Nueva Ecija, a province north of Manila. ...
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse. The Philippines until now has had one of th...
NAYPYIDAW — President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, presently in Burma for an official visit, has formalized a donation of US$300,000 in humanitarian aid designated for to conflict-stricken Arakan State. The Philippine president had a meeting with State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on ...