Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and his brother-in-law Manases Carpio said on Monday, September 4, that they are willing to attend the Senate hearing over allegations of their involvement in drug smuggling.
A leading pediatric group in the country is recommending against in-school random drug testing because there’s not enough evidence to show its effectiveness.
Former House Speaker Prospero Nograles on Saturday, September 2, reiterated his support to President Rodrigo Duterte and vowed his loyalty to Duterte's family, turning around a political feud that stretched for decades.
There was no truth to reports that the local government of Kapalong blocked barred a team of social workers from conducting a one-stop shop service to a Lumad community, the mayor of the town said on Sunday, September 3.
Leaders of non-Islamized indigenous tribes in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are taking a “non-confrontational approach” to demand for a revision of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), a bill that has been filed in Congress which they say still lacks provisions that will protect their right to ancestral domain.