Duterte had used the Tagalog phraseputang ina, which means, literally, “your mother is a whore.” But it is also used to communicate frustration, as in “son of a bitch.”“It’s just an expression,
The last of President Rodrigo Duterte’s state of the nation addresses (SONAs) is at hand. InhisInquirercolumntoday, Peter Wallace is a bit profuse in his praise of the President. He went on to “preempt his Sona by listing some of the achievements he accompli...
Duterte has also threatened to break the Philippines’ decades-old alliance with the US, its former colonial ruler, because of Washington’s criticism over the crime war. Obama has urged Duterte to respect the rule of law and fight crime “the right way”. While abusing Obama, he has compla...
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has a bit of a reputation. The global community has come to know the Philippine's 16th president as a man of contentious quips and often offensive quotes. But while Duterte has been the inspiration for protest marches against the ...
Long-time mayor Rodrigo Duterte leads in polls for presidency on brash language and vows to kill criminals