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Read more about the article Duterte declares unilateral ceasefire with ?Reds, NDF welcomes move
President Rodrigo R. Duterte announces that there will be a revamp in the People's Television 4 (PTV) and the Radyo ng Bayan during his first first State of the Nation Address at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City on Monday, July 25, 2016 that he will lower the income tax. ACE MORANDANTE/PPD

Duterte declares unilateral ceasefire with ?Reds, NDF welcomes move

President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Communist Party of the Philippines in a bid to provide an environment suitable for the resumption of peace talks.

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Read more about the article HISTORIC: ‘People’s SONA’ held meters away from Batasan
Thousands marched along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City for the 'People's State of the Nation Address'. The march ended in the Batasan road where the rallyists held their program some 300 meters away from the Batasan Complex where President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his first SONA. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com)

HISTORIC: ‘People’s SONA’ held meters away from Batasan

This is the first time that the rally of progressive groups had no engagement with police authorities, with rallyists holding their own version of the State of the Nation Address only a few hundred meters away from Batasan Complex Monday, July 25.

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Read more about the article Global activists: Duterte’s SONA should tackle peoples’ rights, peace talks
President Rodrigo Duterte (Presidential Photographers Division)

Global activists: Duterte’s SONA should tackle peoples’ rights, peace talks

Global activists who met here for the International Conference for Peoples' Rights in the Philippines (ICPRP) said President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) should tackle peoples’ rights and peace talk, among other issues, in what they called concrete programs for the people.

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