Supporters of a former senator who is a fierce critic of ex-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday they hoped she could be released on bail “very, very soon,” after judges previously dismissed two of the three drug-related complaints against her.
Gunmen shot dead a Philippine radio broadcaster on Wednesday, police said, the latest killing of a journalist in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for reporters.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday directed authorities to disband all politician-controlled private armed groups (PAG), the defense chief said, amid a spate of deadly attacks on local officials.
The family of a slain Filipino broadcaster on Wednesday welcomed a prosecution’s court filing outlining probable cause to bring murder charges against the former prisons chief who allegedly masterminded his killing.
A medical helicopter carrying five people that went missing is feared crashed in waters off Palawan island in the western Philippines, coast guard officials said Thursday.
Former Sen. Leila de Lima has appeared in a Manila court again to press her petition to dismiss the government’s case against her for lack of evidence, days after marking six years in jail on what she calls trumped-up charges
Three Philippine police officers who went into hiding after being implicated in the 2020 killing of a Spanish surfer during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war have voluntarily surrendered, the justice department said Wednesday.
Philippine court has found a video blogger guilty of online sexual harassment in the first ruling under a new law in the country where politicians often intimidate women online.
The Philippines on Tuesday denounced the killing of a Filipina maid in Kuwait, whose body was reportedly burnt and found dumped in the desert at the weekend.
Philippine authorities on Friday said that eight senior communist guerrilla leaders had surrendered recently to the military’s eastern Mindanao Command, weeks after the death of rebellion founder Jose Maria Sison.