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Read more about the article Dureza hits back at critics on ‘delayed’ release of prisoners
Presidential ?Peace ?Adviser?, ?Sec. Jesus Dureza, ?tells a press conference at Apo View Hotel, Davao City ?government is in constant contact with ?Moro National Liberation Front ?Chairman Nur Misuari, ?but only through emissaries owing to the rebellion charges filed against him in the court. The administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is talking to different Moro revolutionary organizations to get a consensus of a peace settlement acceptable to all the constituents in the Bangsamoro homeland in Mindanao. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Dureza hits back at critics on ‘delayed’ release of prisoners

Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza said they are appalled by some sectors attacking them on the delay of the release of political prisoners in the country.

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Read more about the article Anti-Marcos group to invoke FOI on burial documents 
FAIR WARNING. Mags Maglana, spokersperson of the Konsensya Dabaw call on President Rodrigo Duterte to think about his alliance with the Marcoses. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Anti-Marcos group to invoke FOI on burial documents 

Weeks after the government’s Freedom of Information portal was launched, an anti-Marcos group said it would invoke FOI to request the pertinent documents that approved the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes’ Cemetery.

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Read more about the article Campaign Finance Office in drift, headless | P334M from only 13 donors funded Duterte’s presidency
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his inaugural speech on Thursday, June 30. (Photo by Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines)

Campaign Finance Office in drift, headless | P334M from only 13 donors funded Duterte’s presidency

THE IMAGE Rodrigo R. Duterte projected of his 2016 presidential campaign was that it was one run on a shoestring budget. It supposedly had no donors with vested interests, and that included big businessmen and mining firms.

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