With the drug war questioned before the high court, a senator jailed for drug charges, and a former president accused of graft and usurpation, 2017 would not be complete without its hottest legal issues, trials and debates.
Read more: The most controversial cases that stunned the nation in 2017
Opposition lawmakers who want to stop the year-long extension of martial law in Mindanao don’t know any better than President Rodrigo Duterte about the situation in the region, according to Solicitor General Jose Calida.
Read more: Calida: Petitioners vs martial law extension don’t know Mindanao situation
“Is he preempting an Ombudsman decision on his corruption case?”
SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco Bay Area man who survived the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March and symbolized the thousands of unheralded Filipinos who fought alongside American forces during World War II has died. He was 100.
Read more: Death March survivor, symbol of unsung PH fighters, dies at 100
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has made it his life’s mission to make the “murderous” and “corrupt” Duterte family accountable for their actions.
Read more: As his ’life’s mission,’ Trillanes vows to hold Duterte family accountable for acts
The European Union (EU) has pledged €570,000, or almost P34 million, worth of humanitarian aid for survivors of Tropical Storm “Vinta” (international name: Tembin).
Malacañang on Monday, Dec. 25, said it continues to rely on “China’s good faith” after a Reuters report said Beijing has “reasonably” expanded its islands in the South China Sea.
Read more: Palace still relying on China’s ‘good faith’ amid reports of island expansion
Members of the House of Representatives are promoting “permanent dwelling” in the Kalayaan Group of Islands by allowing residents and investors to obtain titles to the land. The House committee on natural resources has approved a bill declaring the Kalayaan Group, which is part of Palawan, “alienable and disposable” land for agricultural, residential and commercial purposes.
There was good news days after Tropical Storm “Vinta” (international name: Tembin) devastated swaths of Mindanao.
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The Duterte administration will apply the lessons from its previous experiences in the controversial drug war to make the campaign better in 2018, according to presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.