Politics

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.

Once the government clinches bilateral ceasefire, it is likely to lose interest in pursuing fundamental social reforms.

To avoid being caught by traffic enforcers, 70-year-old Rosmar Alfonso took the stairs of the overpass in a ?shopping mall along JP Laurel avenue on Friday morning.