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BY THE MANILA TIMES, Feb. 5, 2017 PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday canceled peace talks with the communists and told rebels leaders negotiating with the government to return to the Philippines and go back to prison.

By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb. 02, 2017 An international human rights watchdog has accused the Philippine National Police of paying officers and assassins to kill alleged drug offenders, planting evidence and even setting up a racket with funeral homes in what it called an “informal economy of death” under President Rodrigo Duterte’s…

SC issues protection order for QC victims by Rey E. Requejo, Feb. 01, 2017, Manila Standard THE Supreme Court issued a writ of amparo Tuesday against Oplan Tokhang, the anti-drug campaign of the Philippine National Police that has led to the killing of about 7,000 drug suspects since July 2016.

Agence France-Presse, Feb. 01, 2017 Philippine police may have committed crimes against humanity by killing thousands of alleged drug offenders or paying others to murder as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

BY LLANESCA T. PANTI, TMT, Manila Times, Jan. 23, 2017 PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is supportive of US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy placing the interest of the United States above all else, a Malacañang official said on Sunday.

By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, Jan. 26, 2017 The Duterte administration aims to lift an average of 1 million Filipinos out of poverty annually until the time the President ends his term in 2022.

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GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), Jan. 18, 2017 How many drug addicts are there really? Two counts are given, the police’s and President Rodrigo Duterte’s. And they widely vary. If we go by the former’s figures, then the latter’s would look sorely understated – by half.

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Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 11, 2017 Net satisfaction with the general performance of the Duterte administration declined in the fourth quarter of 2016, dropping across areas and economic classes.

Are the communists no longer a security threat? BY FRANCISCO TATAD, JANUARY 11, 2017 In his first joint command conference of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in Malacañang last week, President Rodrigo Duterte declared he wanted the notorious Abu Sayyaf Group “crushed.” This should have been said on the…

AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. Ocampo (The Philippine Star), Jan. 7, 2017 President Duterte enters the second half of his first year in office unrelentingly pursuing his bloody war on illegal drugs, which during the electoral campaign he had promised to complete in six months. The fulfillment of another campaign promise has now been…

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, JANUARY 6, 2017 SINCE the communist insurgency started in the 1950s led by a Soviet-influenced Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, President Duterte is the first president to have appointed not only former communist leaders but probably even active communist cadres as members of his Cabinet and as lower-ranking officials.

By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), January 2, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – The European business community has two special wishes for President Duterte this New Year: that he address concerns on alleged extrajudicial killings and end his verbal assaults on the country’s international allies.

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. (The Philippine Star), Jan. 1, 2017 YOU have seen or survived the first six months of the six-year Duterte regime. For the new year starting this blessed day (killers do not rest even on the Sabbath), it will be more of the same – only stricter, meaning bloodier.

By: Tarra Quismundo – Reporter / @TarraINQPhilippine Daily Inquirer, Dec 23, 2016 As she accepted the nation’s highest honor as a patron of arts and culture, Sen. Loren Legarda called for greater action on an “escalating social chaos” besetting the country, including political bickering, violence and attacks against indigenous peoples.

By Jose C. Sison (The Philippine Star), Dec 23, 2016 Change has indeed come to our country this year 2016. Since we became a Democratic Republic, this is the first time for us to have a President like Rodrigo Roa Duterte. And the change here is not only because he is the first President who…

By Janvic Mateo With Alexis Romero, The Philippine Star, Dec. 23, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – President Duterte’s trust rating is declining in most areas but it is still “excellent,” the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey shows. Duterte’s net trust rating remained in the excellent threshold, obtaining a +72 in the results of the Dec.…

CTALK By Cito Beltran (The Philippine Star), Dec. 23, 2016 You know we have a problem if business executives are more worried about the business environment than enjoying the Yuletide season. Instead of ticking off “must attend parties,” a number of company presidents and CEOs have been preoccupied meeting with government officials, stakeholders, crisis managers,…

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec. 16, 2016 An 11-point drop in President Duterte’s satisfaction rating in Mindanao, his bailiwick where poverty is highest, means the country’s main problem is not drugs but how to improve the lives of the poor. That was the takeaway of Akbayan Rep. Tomasito Villarin following the release of the results of…

This is a national problem By: Solita Collas-Monsod @inquirerdotnet, December 10, 2016 It is not funny anymore. Joking about the President’s 180-degree mind changes and their increasing frequency is starting to ring hollow. It is precisely their increasing frequency, coupled with the rumors of his physical incapacities—falling asleep during meetings with international counterparts, fainting spells,…

Rappler takes a look back at some of President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial statements, and how his Cabinet officials tried to make sense of them by Katerina Francisco, December 08, 2016, Rappler.com MANILA, Philippines – In his 6 months so far in office, President Rodrigo Duterte has dominated the attention of national and international media alike.

As the death toll in the Philippines soars, those left behind confront a different life. by ANA P. SANTOS, DEC 1, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/12/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-drugs-widow-human-rights/509030/?utm_source=atltw MANILA—On the morning of September 19, 18-year-old Brent Michael Bravo was on his way home from Manila’s Pasay City Hall, where he was being tried for illegal drug possession. He flagged down…

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By: Marlon Ramos – Reporter / @MRamosINQPhilippine Daily Inquirer, November 29, 2016 Human rights advocates, beware. You might just be next in “The Punisher’s” crosshairs. President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to kill human rights activists critical of his take-no-prisoner tactic against illegal drugs, which has claimed the lives of some 5,000 people allegedly involved in…

Concerns over the direction of the Duterte administration’s foreign policy and reforms and the weak peso outweigh expectations of a Christmas boost, according to the Q4 Business Expectations Survey By Rappler.com, Nov 25, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – Despite stronger than expected 3rd quarter economic growth, businesses have dampened expectations for the final quarter of the…

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By Jose C. Sison (The Philippine Star), November 18, 2016 It is about time for us to erase the delusion that some of our countrymen denominated as “elitist” are trying to put down or belittle the intellectual capacity of the mass of our common people mostly comprising Duterte’s supporters. It is quite divisive and discordant…