In a speech riddled with references to God and barbs at the Catholic Church, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated his promise to eradicate drug abuse from the Philippines through an aggressive law enforcement campaign against drug traffickers. He also announced a ceasefire with a communist militia.
The Foreign Affairs Secretary of the Philippines has confirmed that the nation will not engage in bilateral talks with China over the South China Sea under the terms Beijing has dictated, which requires Filipino diplomats to not mention the existence of a verdict in their favor issued by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has stated he will not abide by the Paris Agreement, an international climate change pact, calling the deal “stupid” and “absurd,” and accusing developed countries of “imposing” on less wealthy states after having committed their own share of environmental atrocities.
An estimated 60,000 Philippine citizens battling drug addiction have turned themselves in to police or rehabilitation centers since President Rodrigo Duterte, who won election on an anti-drug campaign, took office in May.
Chinese citizens are reportedly smashing their iPhones and posting photos of the destruction online, along with calls to boycott American goods, to express their anger over an international court’s decision against Beijing in the South China Sea territorial dispute.
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has warned imprisoned Chinese drug lords — and those still at large who have since left the Philippines — not to continue to disturb the peace in his nation, warning them that, should they remain active in the drug trade, “you will die.”
Rodrigo Duterte, the populist anti-drug mayor of southern Davao City, has been inaugurated as President of the Philippines. In his inauguration speech, a conciliatory Duterte vowed to fight petty crime, drug trafficking, and government corruption.
(Reuters) A Manila baker says he will stand by his promise to give away more than 7,000 slices of cake throughout Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term as Philippine president after being inundated with requests when his offer went viral.
During a speech Monday, Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte — who has sworn off interviews with the press — reiterated his support for capital punishment as a retaliatory measure and not a deterrent, disparaging human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty as “stupid.”
Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is boycotting the media following an international call for journalists to boycott his events in light of a remark in which Duterte asserted that many “son of a bitch” journalists slain on the job deserved to die.
Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, in a speech Saturday, encouraged armed civilians to arrest and kill drug dealers and violent criminals, even offering “a medal” to those who take it upon themselves to kill a criminal.
The president-elect of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has promised to use the money left over from his presidential campaign as a bounty to law enforcement officers who kill those suspected of drug dealing.
Populist firebrand Rodrigo Duterte is ready to assume the presidency of the Philippines in June, preparing an array of zero-tolerance laws against crime, including bans on public smoking and late-night drinking. What he will not be preparing for is a move into the presidential palace, he says, because he has been there and it is haunted.
The presumptive Philippine president-elect has blasted the country’s dominant Roman Catholic church as “the most hypocritical institution” and accused some of its bishops of corruption for allegedly asking favors from politicians, including him.
The Philippines is expected to go through a monumental change now that the President-elect Rodrigo Duterte will assume the office of president on June 30th.
After calling Pope Francis a “son of a bitch” for having paralyzed Manilla traffic during his visit to the Southeast Asian country, Rodrigo Duterte, who won recent presidential elections in the Philippines by a landslide, has said he will travel to Rome to apologize to the pontiff.
The Philippines has a new president: an aggressively anti-crime mayor who has vowed to jet-ski to the disputed territories of the South China Sea and personally plant a Filipino flag. China’s state media have reacted to Rodrigo Duterte’s election with an invite to “win-win cooperation” – coupled with a threat that it will respond in kind to any “blackmail” regarding its colonization of Philippine territory.
Populist law-and-order candidate Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections in a landslide victory, marking a decided change in the political direction of the country.
With 70 percent of votes tallied, Rodrigo Duterte – a populist candidate running on a zero tolerance anti-crime platform – is five million votes ahead of his closest competitor and expected to ultimately win the presidency of the Philippines.
MANILA (Reuters) – Voting for a new Philippine president began on Monday after an acrimonious election campaign that revealed popular disgust with the country’s ruling elite for failing to tackle poverty and inequality despite years of robust economic growth.
“Relax. I am not the man portrayed to be by some,” Philippines presidential frontrunner and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte told a room full of business leaders before offering details of his Viagra use and vowing a “bloody” presidency.
Rodrigo Duterte, the frontrunner in this year’s Philippine presidential election, promised voters in a debate Sunday night that he would ride into the disputed territories of the South China Sea on a jet ski and plant the flag of the Philippines on the Spratly Islands, where China has built advance military infrastructure.
Rodrigo Duterte, currently the frontrunner in this year’s Philippine presidential elections, has vowed to “sever” ties with the United States over their criticism of a joke he made about an Australian rape victim. The threat comes at a time of high tensions in the South China Sea, where the U.S. is aiding the Philippines in keeping China from usurping much of its territory.