Tag: War against drugs
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...