Under pressure to show they are winning the fight against narcotics, Philippine police are raiding alleged drug dens with increasing frequency. But among those regularly picked up are children, who are sometimes manhandled the same way adult criminals are, reports Inquirer.net.
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A post office in Chula Vista, California was named the Jonathan "J.D.'' De Guzman Post Office Building, in honor of a Filipino American San Diego police officer who was shot and killed during a pedestrian stop last summer, reports Inquirer.net.
The Philippines remained a “major” site for money laundering in 2016, the US State Department said in a report, citing last year’s $81-million cyber heist, an ongoing drug problem and a number of businesses that have been kept out of regulatory scrutiny, reports BusinessWorld.
An elderly woman died of cardiac arrest following an intensity 6 earthquake that struck Surigao del Norte on Sunday morning, reports Inquirer.net.
Women are on top of this year's graduating class at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), including this year's valedictorian, the country's foremost military school announced Monday, March 6, reports Rappler.
Human Rights Watch says President Duterte and his men are criminally liable for drug war-related extrajudicial killings, which may be considered crimes against humanity, reports Inquirer.net. The 124-page report claims that police are involved in so-called vigilante killings and are planting evidence in crime scenes.
Three global non-government organizations -- the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) and Amnesty International -- have condemned the arrest of Senator Leila De Lima over non-bailable drug charges and urged the Philippine government to release her immediately, reports Interaksyon.
About 11.2 million adults remained jobless in the last quarter of 2016, the worst in two years according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, reports Inquirer.net.
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