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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police has launched a comprehensive review amid allegations of a reward and quota system in the war on drugs carried out by the PNP during the administration of Rodrigo Duterte.
We have all the reasons and enough evidence to bring the repeated and unprovoked dangerous actions of the Chinese Coast Guard before international courts. Our government has sufficient basis to take immediate and decisive legal action to hold China accountable for its increasingly aggressive actions.
We commend the Ombudsman for taking decisive action by filing graft charges against involved government officials, including former Department of Budget Undersecretary Christopher Lao, regarding his involvement in the COVID-19 fund transfer from the DOH to the PS-DBM. Mr. Lao is also linked to the procurement of overpriced laptops for the Department of Education (DepEd).
There is an ongoing debate on how the Philippines should react in the increasingly aggressive and combative reaction to the Philippines’ insistence on asserting its ownership over the Philippine Sea. China started by using its Coast Guard ships to block Filipino fishermen and the resupply ship. Now it has moved on to the next stage of using water cannon, most recently against the BRP Teresa Magbanua.
BRASILIA, Brazil — A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's X social media network in the country, after a months-long standoff over disinformation in South America's largest nation.
(UPDATE) HOUSE Minority Leader and 4P's Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan said Sen. Ronald «Bato» dela Rosa should come forward and reveal the truth of his involvement in the bloody war on drugs during the term of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Ombudsman has listed Sen. Risa Hontiveros and former senator Richard Gordon as among its witnesses in the graft case it filed before the Sandiganbayan against former health secretary Francisco Duque III and former Department of Budget and Management Procurement Service (PS-DBM) executive director Lloyd Christopher Lao.
MANILA, Philippines — For Alliance of Concerned Teachers Rep. France Castro, Vice President Sara Duterte had committed an “impeachable offense” for misusing the P125-million confidential funds given to her in 2022.