'Don’t shut up!': Documentary puts Filipino journalist Maria Ressa in spotlight
The country’s most well-known journalist has been arrested, jailed and convicted on libel and tax evasion charges widely seen as attacks on press freedom.
Philippines now has worst COVID-19 outbreak in Southeast Asia
Despite imposing the longest, strictest lockdown in Southeast Asia, coronavirus cases in the Philippines have now surged to almost 120,000, eclipsing Indonesia to become the region’s biggest outbreak. The country re-imposed this week a second lockdown on Manila and nearby areas to curb infection spread, ...
Police checkpoints will return to ensure only authorized people, including medical personnel and workers at vital companies, venture out of their homes.
Dozens of doctors' groups on Saturday warned that the Philippines was losing the coronavirus fight, urging President Rodrigo Duterte to tighten a recently eased lockdown as cases surged and hospitals turned away patients. Eighty medical associations representing tens of thousands of doctors signed the open ...
Duterte's anti-terrorism law challenged in Philippines' top court
Critics of a new anti-terrorism law in the Philippines called on the country's highest court Monday to suspend the legislation, arguing it threatens human rights and freedom of speech. The law approved by President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday gives the security forces sweeping powers to ...
Philippines' Duterte signs anti-terrorism bill into law amid criticism from rights groups
The president can now appoint a council that can order warrantless arrests and detain people for weeks without charge.
Scores of children killed in Philippines' war on drugs, report says
Minors have been directly targeted, punished as proxies, or victims of mistaken identity, the report said.
Rodrigo Duterte paying Filipinos to move from Manila to country
The coronavirus pandemic is giving Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte a reason to reduce overcrowding in Manila, which in recent decades has swelled into one of the most heavily populated areas on Earth. Duterte is offering cash and goods to induce city-dwellers to move out of ...
'Near impunity' for drug war killings in Philippines, U.N. report says
Tens of thousands of people in the Philippines may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016, amid "near impunity" for police and incitement to violence by top officials, the United Nations said on Thursday. The drugs crackdown, launched by President Rodrigo Duterte ...
U.S. 'concerned' over shutdown of top Philippine broadcaster
The United States on Thursday voiced concern over the Philippine government-ordered shutdown of the country's top broadcaster ABS-CBN, which has been targeted by President Rodrigo Duterte. "We are concerned by the situation regarding ABS-CBN," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said. "An independent media plays a critical ...
ABS-CBN Corp., the Philippines’ largest broadcaster previously attacked by President Rodrigo Duterte, was ordered by regulators to stop operating its television and radio stations after its franchise expired on Monday. A hearing on ABS-CBN’s case will be scheduled once the lockdown in the Philippine capital ...
Philippines closes off capital for the next month as number of coronavirus infections doubles
Police began closing off access to the Philippines' sprawling and densely populated capital of Manila on Sunday, imposing a quarantine that officials hope will curb the nation's rising number of coronavirus cases. Officers armed with rifles blocked off main roads into the city of some ...
