Alas!!! Medical staff who lose their lives treating Coronavirus patients are 'lucky' to die for their country - Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte says

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has raised eyebrows for saying medical staff who lose their lives treating Coronavirus patients are 'lucky' to die for their country. 

KABOOM! Hit them, shoot them, but don't kill them' - Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte urges people to attack corrupt officials

Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines has invited citizens to 'shoot but not kill' any corrupt public official they encounter.  

Philippines President Duterte once stabbed a person to death, he says

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he stabbed a person to death as a teenager, in a defiant speech to promote his drug war ahead of a summit of world leaders in Manila.

Speaking to the local Filipino community in the Vietnamese city of Danang on Thursday, Duterte also threatened to slap a UN rights rapporteur if he met her, and used obscene language to hit back at critics of his deadly drugs crackdown.

Scare as officer found shot dead at Philippine presidential compound

An officer in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s elite military security force was found shot dead on Tuesday inside the sprawling presidential compound, an official said.

Major Harin Gonzaga, 37, was found by his wife with a gunshot wound to the heart inside his room in the Malacanang compound in Manila, said Brigadier General Lope Dagoy, head of the Presidential Security Group.

Disappointment as high-heels shoe banned by Government

The Federal Government of the Philippines, through its labour department, has issued an order banning private companies from demanding female employees to wear high-heeled shoes at work.

A labour group that proposed the new directive said that the order makes Philippines the first country in Asia to ban the mandatory wearing of high heels in workplace.

Scare as Philippine presidential guards wounded in attack by Maoist rebels

Reuters is reporting that four members of the Philippine presidential guard were wounded in a firefight with dozens of Maoist rebels disguised as soldiers at a checkpoint on the southern island of Mindanao, the military said on Wednesday.

Cholera breaks out in IS-Philippines war zone in Marawi

The first cases of cholera have been recorded in emergency shelters for families fleeing the conflict in the southern Philippines city of Marawi.

Almost a quarter of a million people have been forced to leave their homes, as the fight against IS-linked militants enters its second month.

Oh dear! Your father screwed Monica Lewinsky – Philippines President mocks Clinton’s daughter

President Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines on Wednesday mocked Chelsea, daughter of former US President Bill Clinton for criticising him over a joke about rape.

Duterte questioned whether she had just come to terms with her father’s affair with a White House intern, referring to Clinton’s escapade with Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s.

Oh dear! Not again! Trump spills another US secret to Duterte

Still mired in controversy over telling Russia about a planned ISIS attack, President Donald Trump is caught in yet another, this time spilling US military secret to President Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines..

The New York Times reported that Trump told Duterte that Washington has sent two nuclear submarines to waters off the Korean peninsula,  a disclosure likely to raise questions about his handling of sensitive information.

Hehehe... Alas! Philippines' Duterte invites EU critics, wants to 'slap them'

Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out on Friday at European Union critics of his bloody anti-narcotics campaign, threatening to "slap" them.

It is the latest of the leader's near-daily diatribe against the United States, EU and the United Nations while heaping praise on China and Russia.

WARNING: OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AHEAD!!!

Alas! Philippine vice president slams President Duterte's drug war

Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo said Wednesday the nation’s drug war had left Filipinos feeling “hopeless and helpless”, with trust in the police eroded by thousands of summary executions.

In a video message to a United Nations meeting on extrajudicial killings posted online, Robredo also called for international scrutiny on President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial crackdown.

Oh dear! Duterte is a serial killer, says Philippine senator

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a “serial killer” who should be forced out of office, one of his chief critics said Tuesday, as she faced arrest on drug charges she insisted were meant to silence her.

Senator Leila de Lima invoked a famous “People Power” revolution that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos three decades ago, in her strongest comments yet against Duterte and his drug war that has claimed thousands of lives.

Oh my word! Philippines President declares: I will kill more people to win drug war

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte says he is willing to kill more people to win his war on drugs.

The controversial leader says he is calling in the military to help fight what he describes as a threat to national security.

Thousands of deaths have already been attributed to Mr Duterte's crackdown on the illicit trade, which started seven months ago after he became president.

Philippines' Duterte says he may impose martial law if drug problem 'virulent'

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would impose martial law if the drug problem became "very virulent", just a month after dismissing as "nonsense" any suggestion he might do so.

Duterte has made a brutal war on drugs a central pillar of his administration since he took office in the middle of last year.

One dead as scores escape in Philippine prison break. Duterte! Over to you.

More than 150 inmates have escaped from a south Philippines prison after gunmen launched an attack.

The authorities suspect the gunmen are linked to Islamist separatist groups.