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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte checks the scope of a 7.62 mm sniper rifle

Critics call him ‘serial killer.’ But Duterte is still a hit in the Philippines.

July 3, 2017Global Politics

We interviewed one of the Philippine president’s staunchest supporters: Duterte Youth leader Ronald Cardema.

There are close to 1,100 patients at Manila's Bicutan Rehabilitation Center, double its maximum capacity.

How to rehabilitate addicts in the Philippines’ vicious drug war?

April 10, 2017Justice
Yolanda Ampoan is hugged by her children after learning of the death of her son Sandrex Ampo. Ampo was killed by unknown assailant on September 23, 2016 in Punta Sta Ana, Manila.

When half a million drug users surrendered in the Philippines, authorities sent some of them to Zumba

October 10, 2016Justice

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