Unnamed foreign ambassador asks Duterte over presidential bid
"One, I do not like it, I do not need it. And two, is I do not have the money. Or maybe because of the second, I do not have the money so I'm not interested," Duterte said.
Asian migrants, youth groups support Hong Kong’s strikers
BAYAN Hong Kong, the militant alliance of national democratic people’s organisations of Filipinos in Hong Kong and Macau SARs, said they sympathize with the Hong Kong people, “who in their desire to effect change and reforms are met with brutality and excessive use of force by the Hong Kong police.”
Mar on Purisima: He alone can answer
Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas said only Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Alan Purisima can answer for the allegations against saying “no one is above the law.”
Duterte, Mindanao leaders bat for federalism
“The only way to attain peace in Mindanao and perhaps throughout the land is to go federal. This problem of Muslim insurgency in Mindanao needs a federal type of solution,” Duterte said.
Older sister smiles while younger sister stares emptily at their evacuation center in Zamboanga City's Enriques Memorial Complex, two months after the Zamboanga siege. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Neglect of evacuees scored one year after Zamboanga siege
The ICRC reported it was assisting families to visit some 300 detainees in Bicutan.