Michael Beltran

Philip­pines pres­i­dent has tilt­ed to­wards US since tak­ing of­fice a year ago, but is keep­ing Bei­jing close.

Philip­pine Pres­i­dent Fer­di­nand Mar­cos Jr urged to ‘make a dif­fer­ence’ for now-el­der­ly women af­ter land­mark UN de­ci­sion.

The court is look­ing at the deaths of thou­sands of peo­ple af­ter for­mer Pres­i­dent Ro­dri­go Duterte be­gan his ‘drugs war’.

Pres­i­dent in­structs agen­cies to re­con­sid­er pro­pos­als amid con­cerns about the ef­fect on dri­vers’ liveli­hoods.

Crit­i­cal jour­nal­ists ex­pect­ed to re­main in sights of ad­min­is­tra­tion as new pres­i­dent in­vites vlog­gers to the palace.

Vet­er­an politi­cian and ac­tivist Walden Bel­lo was ar­rest­ed on Mon­day over com­ments re­lat­ed to a drug raid.

An­a­lysts say the pres­i­dent’s first state of the na­tion ad­dress lacks de­tails and has no­table omis­sions.

Fer­di­nand Mar­cos Jr was pro­pelled to pow­er on the back of a ‘well-oiled’ cam­paign that white­washed his fa­ther’s crimes.