Tag: War against drugs
Philippine court strikes down order to shut online news site Rappler
By Gerard Carreon in Manila
An appeals court has struck down a 2018 government order that sought to shut down Rappler, an online Philippine news...
Does Israel really want to open a two-front war by attacking...
ANALYSIS: By Ian Parmeter, Australian National University
Among the many sayings attributed to Winston Churchill is, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed...
Duterte again calls for return of death penalty by lethal injection
By Pia Ranada in Manila
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, for the third time, used his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to call on Congress...
Drug problem in Philippines has ‘worsened’, admits Duterte
By Nestor Corrales in Manila
Despite the Philippine government’s brutal war on drugs, President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that the drug problem in the country...
‘No one can stop me’, says Duterte on possible martial law...
Al Jazeera's Jamela Alingogan reports from Manila on a game-changing president marking six months in office. Video: AJ YouTube
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said...
President Duterte’s war on crime: A nuclear explosion of violence
OPINION: By Atty. Jose Manuel "Chel" I. Diokno
President Duterte's war on crime in the Philippines has spawned a nuclear explosion of violence that is...
Indonesia’s Jokowi to go all out to ‘smash’ drug dealers
By Haeril Halim in Jakarta and Margareth S. Aritonang in Oslo
As a third round of executions nears, Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has commemorated...